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DateSun, 10 Jan 2010 16:49:51 +0300
FromCyrill Gorcunov <>
SubjectRe: 2.6.33-rc2: Xen/Guest switching to user mode with no user page tables
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 04:36:28PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
...
> >
> > With just the CS RPL fix below I see a GPF at kernel_thread_helper with
> > SS=3 (hence my hypothesis about NULL selectors and non-zero RPL above).
> > With both the SS and CS fixes things work fine.
>
> any of CS,SS loaded with NULL descriptor should lead to #GP
>

though SS with RPL=0 is allowed to be NULL descriptor in 64bit mode

> >
> > Ian.
> >
> > ---
> > Subject: xen: 64 bit kernel RPL should be 0.
> >
> ...
>
> Good catch Ian! I've noted that Xen use it's own get_kernel_rpl
> while discussing this problem in a chat. But I must admit *I simply don't know*
> what Xen does, or how it works internally (neither I have will to learn it at
> moment :)
>
> That said -- I'm happy if yor patch fixes problem (and it looks that
> get_kernel_rpl is guilty here indeed).
>
> -- Cyrill

-- Cyrill


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