[Xen-devel] Possible shadow bug

[Pasi Kärkkäinen]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:10:11AM +0100, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 11:01 +0100 on 10 Jun (1307703699), Tim Deegan wrote:
> > Actually, looking at the disassembly you posted, it looks more like it
> > might be an emulator bug in Xen; if Xen finds itself emulating the IMUL
> > instruction and either gets the logic wrong or does the memory access
> > wrong, it could cause that failure.  And one reason that Xen emulates
> > instructions is if the memory operand is on a pagetable that's shadowed
> > (which might be a page that was recently a pagetable). 
> > 
> > ISTR that even though the RHEL xen reports a 3.0.x version it has quite
> > a lot of backports in it.  Does it have this patch?
> > http://hg.uk.xensource.com/xen-3.1-testing.hg/rev/e8fca4c42d05
> 
> Oops, that URL doesn't work; I meant this:
> http://xenbits.xen.org/xen-3.1-testing.hg/rev/e8fca4c42d05
> 

RHEL5 Xen (hypervisor) reports version as 3.1.2-xyz..

-- Pasi