Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:59:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Xu <bsddiy@yahoo.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386 trap code Message-ID: <20020707065950.88612.qmail@web20901.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20020706110658.A36596@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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Jonthan, I just use DOS program as an example, for any program, if it wants to go into VM86 mode, it is very easy, just calls i386_vm86() to initailize its VM86 pcb extension, setups some memory area, then call sigreturn() to turn into VM86 mode. I think global in_vm86call flags is a bug under SMP, it creates a race condition. suppose this scenario: CPU A is running a simple VM86 code program. CPU B is running vm86_intcall() by some kernel driver (vesa module ?) CPU B set in_vm86call = 1 CPU A gets a fault trap. CPU A runs trap(), and find that in_vm86call is set and handles the trap as it is running vm86_intcall(), but it is not true and make a mess. David Xu --- Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 05:15:26AM -0700, David Xu wrote: > > > > I don't know how DOS emulating program works, but if it let DOS > > program run in VM86 mode, the in_vm86call global flag can prevent > > one CPU to run VM86 BIOS call and another CPU run DOS VM86 code, > > because it can not distinct which CPU the kernel is calling BIOS > > and which CPU is running VM86 DOS code, under SMP this is a problem. > > for exapmle, vesa module running on first CPU is calling VM86 BIOS, > > and second CPU is running DOS program, the DOS program maybe simply > > executes a privilege instruction to trigger trap, and the CPU > > will see itself calling VM86 BIOS, but it shouldn't. > > The virtual vm86 mode that doscmd(1) uses is different than the > vm86 bios calls (or bios16, or bios32) which allows direct execution > of BIOS code. They do not have much in common. doscmd() does not > directly execute any of the BIOS code; it provides its own BIOS > emulator. > > The scenario you postulate above cannot exist. > -- > Jonathan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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