On Wednesday 19 January 2011 12:18 pm, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0000, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> > Author: jkim
> > Date: Wed Jan 19 17:09:07 2011
> > New Revision: 217587
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217587
> >
> > Log:
> >   Fix yet another fallout from r208833.  VM86 BIOS call may cause
> > page fault when FPU is in use.
> >
> >   Reported by:      Marc UBM Bocklet (ubm dot freebsd at googlemail
> > dot com) Tested by: b. f. (bf1783 at googlemail dot com)
> >   MFC after:        3 days
> >
> > Modified:
> >   head/sys/i386/i386/vm86bios.s
> >
> > Modified: head/sys/i386/i386/vm86bios.s
> > =================================================================
> >============= --- head/sys/i386/i386/vm86bios.s      Wed Jan 19
> > 17:04:07 2011       (r217586) +++ head/sys/i386/i386/vm86bios.s     Wed Jan
> > 19 17:09:07 2011    (r217587) @@ -73,10 +73,9 @@
> > ENTRY(vm86_bioscall)
> >     je      1f                      /* no curproc/npxproc */
> >     pushl   %edx
> >     movl    TD_PCB(%ecx),%ecx
> > -   addl    $PCB_SAVEFPU,%ecx
> > -   pushl   %ecx
> > +   pushl   PCB_SAVEFPU(%ecx)
> >     call    npxsave
> > -   popl    %ecx
> > +   addl    $4,%esp
> >     popl    %edx                    /* recover our pcb */
> >  1:
> >     popfl
>
> vm86_bioscall() in fact inlines the old version of npxexit().
> Shouldn't the npxexit() be called from C code before call to
> vm86_bioscall ?

I think we can but I don't like redundant or nested uses of 
critical_enter()/critical_exit() from vm86_intcall()/vm86_datacall().  
And I don't think that's worth the code churn.

> Also, if bioscall can be used from the syscall context, I think
> whatever npxsave()/npxexit() is used, and BIOS modifies FPU
> state, we are corrupting usermode FPU context.
>
> Probably, fpu_kern_enter()/fpu_kern_leave() braces around
> vm86_bioscall is proper solution.

BIOS should never modify FPU state, AFAIK.

Jung-uk Kim
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