Re: kvm: how big is type?

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 12:10:42 EST


Izik Eidus wrote:
Avi Kivity wrote:
Harvey Harrison wrote:
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3484:25: warning: cast truncates bits from constant
value (100 becomes 0)
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:3510:24: warning: cast truncates bits from constant
value (100 becomes 0)

The problem:
cseg_desc.type &= ~(1 << 8); //clear the B flag
nseg_desc.type |= (1 << 8);

type is a 4-bit bitfield on x86....please look into this.

I think it ought to be (1 << 1), not (1 << 8), as it refers to the
"busy" bit of the task type. Izik?


From cf6e76c69a38a983df0c84a3dcc2336042eb3436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Izik Eidus <izike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:16:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] KVM: x86: task switch: fix wrong bit setting for the busy flag.
the busy bit is in offset of 1 inside type and not in 8.

Applied, thanks.


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