[Xen-devel] GP exception on vmxon

["Hu Jia Yi" <jyhu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, I tried to write a piece of code to start vmx.

This code is directly interacting with cpu instead of with virtual cpu as in xen.

But every time I call vmxon, a GP exception happens.

 

Could anybody help me on this? The following is the context

 

1. After booting up to the program, I disable A20M.
2. allocate a 4kb-aligned vmxon region and calculate its physical address.
3. setup identity page table and enter protected page mode. In this step I also set x86_cr0_ne ( cr0.bit5)
4. call start_vmx. This start_vmx function is similar to the one in xen3.1.0
1. test cpuid with eax = 1. ecx.vmxe(bit5) is 1.
2. Test IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL_MSR, result is 0x05, so bit 0 and bit 2 are both 1.
3. Set cr4.vmxe (bit13) to 1
4. Call vmx_init_vmcs_config(). This function is the same as in xen3.1.0.
5. Call vmxon, passing it the physical adderss calculated in step2, using the same op-code as xen

f.    stop vmx by calling vmxoff.

 

Using “while(1)”, I traced and found the GP exception happened in step 4.e.

From Intel Software Development Manual 2B, I get the following conditions to throw a GP.

 

IF (CPL > 0) or (in A20M mode) or

(the values of CR0 and CR4 are supported in VMX operation) or

(bit 0 (lock bit) of IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR is clear) or

(bit 2 of IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL MSR is clear)

THEN #GP(0);

 

I checked the conditions and found none of them was violated.

The results are as follows

 

CR0 :                                       0x80000031

IA32_VMX_CR0_FIXED0:    0x80000021

IA32_VMX_CR0_FIXED1:    0xFFFFFFFF

 

CR4 :                                       0x2250

IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED0:    0x2000

IA32_VMX_CR4_FIXED1:    0x27FF

 

IA32_VMX_BASIC_MSR is 001A 0400 0000 0007

The revision ID 0x07 is assigned to the corresponding field in vmxon region in the step 4.d

 

IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL is 0x05

 

My PC has a 32 bit, VT-support multi-core CPU.

I use only the BSP and haven’t dealt with multi-cpu wake-up.

 

Best regards,

Hu Jia Yi

Ext: 20430

Tel: 65-67510430

 

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