Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-15 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-15 19:44, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 15/04/16 18:33, wo...@openmailbox.org wrote: On 2016-04-07 04:04, Jan Beulich wrote: We'd need to know which exact exception (including error code and, in the case of #PF, CR2 value) gets raised to the guest by what specific piece of code in the hype

Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-15 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-07 04:04, Jan Beulich wrote: We'd need to know which exact exception (including error code and, in the case of #PF, CR2 value) gets raised to the guest by what specific piece of code in the hypervisor. That'll likely mean some instrumentation of the hypervisor code. Jan I want to gi

Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-07 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-07 04:04, Jan Beulich wrote: We'd need to know which exact exception (including error code and, in the case of #PF, CR2 value) gets raised to the guest by what specific piece of code in the hypervisor. That'll likely mean some instrumentation of the hypervisor code. Jan No problem w

Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-06 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-06 10:55, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 06/04/16 00:57, Mihai Donțu wrote: On Wed, 06 Apr 2016 01:38:32 +0200 wo...@openmailbox.org wrote: I'm running Xen 4.6.1 with Alpine Linux 3.3.3 in dom0. In a HVM domU with vga="qxl", Xorg will segfault instantly if tried started. Multiple Linux di

Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-05 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-06 02:02, Mihai Donțu wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 02:57:35 +0300 Mihai Donțu wrote: I don't believe the x86 emulator is complete wrt the SSE instruction set. But I do wonder why, in your case, these instructions need emulation at all. Unless touching the video RAM requires emulation. C

Re: [Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-05 Thread wogiz
On 2016-04-06 01:57, Mihai Donțu wrote: I don't believe the x86 emulator is complete wrt the SSE instruction set. But I do wonder why, in your case, these instructions need emulation at all. Unless touching the video RAM requires emulation. Can you try using a different video driver? I see xorg p

[Xen-devel] Bug in x86 instruction emulator?

2016-04-05 Thread wogiz
I'm running Xen 4.6.1 with Alpine Linux 3.3.3 in dom0. In a HVM domU with vga="qxl", Xorg will segfault instantly if tried started. Multiple Linux distros have been tested and Xorg segfaults in all. Attached are a full backtrace from domU generated by Xorg, and a assembler dump of function 'ss