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SubjectRe: 2.6.31.5 x86-64 KVM: 'emulation failed (pagetable) rip 7fb49335da7b 66 0f 7f 07'
On 11/29/2009 03:48 PM, Nix wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2009, Avi Kivity uttered the following:
>
>> 66 0f 7f 07 movdqa %xmm0,(%rdi)
>>
>> which we don't emulate.
>>
> x86-64 glibc 2.10 memset(), perhaps? On SSE-capable platforms that does
> a whole bunch of
>
> L(SSE0QB): movdqa %xmm0,-0xb0(%rdi)
> L(SSE0QA): movdqa %xmm0,-0xa0(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q9): movdqa %xmm0,-0x90(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q8): movdqa %xmm0,-0x80(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q7): movdqa %xmm0,-0x70(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q6): movdqa %xmm0,-0x60(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q5): movdqa %xmm0,-0x50(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q4): movdqa %xmm0,-0x40(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q3): movdqa %xmm0,-0x30(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q2): movdqa %xmm0,-0x20(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q1): movdqa %xmm0,-0x10(%rdi)
> L(SSE0Q0): retq
>
> (multiple blocks of this, catering for alignment, I guess)
>
> and x86-64 is always SSE-capable.
>

Most likely, either this or something similar is called on a userspace
device driver. Can you check if this is triggered by starting X?

If so, we'll have to emulate this instruction, which will be a bitch.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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