Hi Philippe,

Thanks for your review comment! But if the patch is already
queued, is it too late to apply it?

Kind regards,
Zero Tang

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
wrote:

> Hi Zero,
>
> On 6/8/25 09:58, Zero Tang wrote:
> >   Replaces "long" with "int64_t" during canonicalization.
> >
> >   ---
> >   In Linux GCC, "long" has 8 bytes. However, in msys2 GCC, "long" has 4
> >   bytes. In this case, canonicalization would set all high bits to 1 when
> >   the segment base is bigger than 0x7FFF (assuming 48-bit linear
> address).
> >
> >   This is why QEMU-TCG in Windows cannot boot a bluepill-like hypervisor
> >   in UEFI, in that the guest IDT and GDT bases are above 0x7FFF, thereby
> >   resulting in incorrect bases. When an interrupt arrives, it would
> >   trigger a #PF exception; the #PF would trigger again, resulting in a
> #DF
> >   exception; the #PF would trigger for the third time, resulting in
> >   triple-fault, and eventually causes the shutdown VM-Exit to the
> >   bluepill hypervisor right after it boots.
> >
> >   In summary, this patch replaces "long" with "int64_t" in order to
> enforce
> >   the canonicalization with 64-bit signed integers.
> >
> >   Signed-off-by: Zero Tang <zero.tang...@gmail.com
> > <mailto:zero.tang...@gmail.com>>
> >   ---
> >    target/i386/tcg/system/svm_helper.c | 2 +-
> >    1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >   diff --git a/target/i386/tcg/system/svm_helper.c b/target/i386/tcg/
> > system/svm_helper.c
> >   index b27049b9ed..1ccfccf419 100644
> >   --- a/target/i386/tcg/system/svm_helper.c
> >   +++ b/target/i386/tcg/system/svm_helper.c
> >   @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ static void svm_save_seg(CPUX86State *env, int
> > mmu_idx, hwaddr addr,
> >    static inline void svm_canonicalization(CPUX86State *env,
> > target_ulong *seg_base)
> >    {
> >        uint16_t shift_amt = 64 - cpu_x86_virtual_addr_width(env);
> >   -    *seg_base = ((((long) *seg_base) << shift_amt) >> shift_amt);
> >   +    *seg_base = ((((int64_t) *seg_base) << shift_amt) >> shift_amt);\
>
> Alternatively:
>
>           *seg_base = sextract64(*seg_base, 0, 64 -
> cpu_x86_virtual_addr_width(env));
>
> >    }
> >
> >    static void svm_load_seg(CPUX86State *env, int mmu_idx, hwaddr addr,
> >
> >   ---
> >   base-commit: e0006a86615baa70bc9d8b183e528aed91c1ac90
> >   change-id: 20250806-fix-tcg-svm-canon-adbea9508073
> >
> >   Best regards,
> >   --
> >   Zero Tang <zero.tang...@gmail.com <mailto:zero.tang...@gmail.com>>
>
>

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