On 2014-07-04 11:38, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 04/07/2014 11:33, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>>
>> The compiler is not aware of the fact that push/pop exists in this
>> function and, thus, places the vmcs parameter on the stack without
>> reserving the space. So the pushfq will overwrite the vmcs pointer and
>> let the function fail.
> 
> Is that just a missing "memory" clobber?  push/pop clobbers memory.

Nope, we would needs some clobber like "stack". I wonder what is
required to use push in inline assembly safely?

Jan

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