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Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug with TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug with TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS |
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Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:06:52 +0300 |
On 8/19/08, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> Chris Lalancette wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > oVirt is currently using straight x86_64 qemu emulation for certain
> parts
> > of the architecture (we mostly use KVM, but need to use full emulation for
> a
> > couple of parts). We recently upgraded our userspace package to kvm-72,
> but
> > found that we could not PXE boot guests when we were doing full emulation
> (under
> > kvm, we could PXE boot just fine). We also tried using qemu SVN tip, with
> > similar results. We ended up doing a bisect, and tracked down the problem
> to
> > this commit (from the kvm repo, but pulled from qemu):
> >
> >
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/amit/kvm-userspace.git;a=commit;h=468f7507339a5236bff8ab339eb0c1b019a95fda
> >
> > The important changes in there in terms of this bug revolves around
> > TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS in exec.c. If I change that back to 32 (what
> it was
> > before this patch for x86_64), the PXE boot succeeds. Also, if I remove
> > TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS > 32 conditional code in
> phys_page_find_alloc(), but
> > leave TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS as 42, the PXE boot also works. I can't
> claim
> > to understand the conditional code I've compiled out, so I'm not sure
> where the
> > bug would be. Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?
> >
> >
>
> Right now, the code just can't handle TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACES_BITS > 32.
> This may help you:
>
> diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c
> index a0aa7dc..cac7a87 100644
> --- a/exec.c
> +++ b/exec.c
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ typedef struct PhysPageDesc {
> */
> #define L1_BITS (TARGET_VIRT_ADDR_SPACE_BITS - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
> #else
> -#define L1_BITS (32 - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
> +#define L1_BITS (TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS - L2_BITS - TARGET_PAGE_BITS)
> #endif
>
> #define L1_SIZE (1 << L1_BITS)
>
> But there are a lot more places in the code that assume
> TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_SPACE_BITS == 32. I'm inclined to think that we should
> change it back to 32.
Sparc32 uses 36 bits successfully, on SS-10/20/600MP a lot of devices
are located near the top of physical address space.
Sparc64 boots using address 0x1ff f000 0020 and that uses 42 bits (top
bit zero). I think I have found a bug...