Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix mask of pte index

[Jesse Larrew]

On 05/20/2013 10:00 PM, Qiao Nuohan wrote:
> Function walk_pte needs pte index to calculate virtual address. However, pte
> index of PAE paging or IA-32e paging is 9 bit, so the mask should be 0x1ff.
> ---
>  target-i386/arch_memory_mapping.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target-i386/arch_memory_mapping.c 
> b/target-i386/arch_memory_mapping.c
> index 844893f..a2eb7e7 100644
> --- a/target-i386/arch_memory_mapping.c
> +++ b/target-i386/arch_memory_mapping.c
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static void walk_pte(MemoryMappingList *list, hwaddr 
> pte_start_addr,
>              continue;
>          }
> 
> -        start_vaddr = start_line_addr | ((i & 0x1fff) << 12);
> +        start_vaddr = start_line_addr | ((i & 0x1ff) << 12);
>          memory_mapping_list_add_merge_sorted(list, start_paddr,
>                                               start_vaddr, 1 << 12);
>      }
> 

Verified that this agrees with the spec for IA-32e/PAE paging. Note that
walk_pte2() is correct; only walk_pte() has the typo.

Reviewed by: Jesse Larrew <address@hidden>

Jesse Larrew
Software Engineer, KVM Team
IBM Linux Technology Center
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