Virtual Mode Extensions (VME)
and
Protected Mode Virtual Interrupts (PVI)
instructions STI and CLI have full support of these features, according to Intel docs. Need to check POPF and PUSHF instructions and afterwise VME and PVI extensions could be enabled in CR4
split REPEAT instructions according to opsize to speedup execution
now each REPEATABLE instruction splitted to 3 different instructions, one for 16-bit operand size, one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit. Choosing of correct instruction occure in fetchdecode step.
Manual says that GP(0) shouldd be generated in this case ALWAYS
Fixed instructions PANIC messages to ERROR for this case
And ... do not leave PANIC messages w/o taking care that user could push CONTINUE button and program should know to continue after the PANIC code line. Mainly in rerurn instructions were several problems ...
the patch release notes by Zwane:
o Define symbols for constants like
o APIC arbitration
o Processor priority
o Various interrupt delivery fixes
o Focus processor checking
o ExtINT delivery
I need to release this now so that i don't fall too far behind CVS, when
it was part of the bochs-smp patch it could boot 2.4.18 4way. Apologies
for the whitespace changes.
Also remove patch.apic-ppr-zwane patch because it already included in
patch.apic-zwane.
I hope it will help to boot x86-64 or cmp systems required missed APIC
features !
1. Review and commit patch
[ 896733 ] Lazy flags, for more instructions, only 1 src op
May be partially, but I hope to get all ideas from patch in
2. Get Bochs speedup after lazy flags optimization
3. Most important for me: improve correctness of emulation by handling several
undocumented EFLAGS modifications. And finally pass
UFLAGS - Undefined Flags Test v 3.0
Copyright (C) Potemkin's Hackers Group (PHG) 1989,1995
The test still fails on > 50% of its checks.
2. Fixed bug
[ 989478 ] I-Cache and undefined Instruktions
The L4 microkernel uses an undefined instruction to
trap for a special requests into the kernel (LOCK NOP).
The handler fixes this up and gives the user a special
code page with syscall stubs. If you're not using the
I-Cache optimization everthing works find on bochs. But
if you enable the I-Cache (--enable-icache), then the
undefined opcode exception is thrown only once for ever
virtual address it occurs. See the demodisk of the
L4KA::pistachio
(http://www.l4ka.org/projects/pistachio/download.php).
In this case the pingpong benchmark of this demo is of
interest. Everything runs fine until the program tries
to spawn a new task for its measurements. This new task
shares the code of the creating program. But the new
task stops executing at the undefined instruction
explained above and no exception is thrown.
- v8086 priveleged instruction processing bug (was also reported by
LightCone Aug 7 2003)
- exception process bug (was reported by Diego Henriquez Sat Nov 15
01:16:51 CET 2003)
- segment validation with IRET instruction
- CS segment not present exception processing with IRET
configure script option --enable-magic-breakpoints (enabled by default).
Documented the instruction required to trigger the magic breakpoint
(xchgw %bx,%bx).
