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authorAurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>2015-06-03 23:09:56 +0200
committerAlexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>2015-06-05 01:37:59 +0200
commit068593deea6cc61b06243a33c7fcfadb1650b654 (patch)
tree60200713decc615d49fbde769f6f3729ca63ce4a /target-s390x/mmu_helper.c
parenta3084e8055067b3fe8ed653a609021d2ab368564 (diff)
target-s390x: fix MVC instruction when areas overlap
The MVC instruction and the memmove C funtion do not have the same semantic when memory areas overlap: MVC: When the operands overlap, the result is obtained as if the operands were processed one byte at a time and each result byte were stored immediately after fetching the necessary operand byte. memmove: Copying takes place as though the bytes in src are first copied into a temporary array that does not overlap src or dest, and the bytes are then copied from the temporary array to dest. The behaviour is therefore the same when the destination is at a lower address than the source, but not in the other case. This is actually a trick for propagating a value to an area. While the current code detects that and call memset in that case, it only does for 1-byte value. This trick can and is used for propagating two or more bytes to an area. In the softmmu case, the call to mvc_fast_memmove is correct as the above tests verify that source and destination are each within a page, and both in a different page. The part doing the move 8 bytes by 8 bytes is wrong and we need to check that if the source and destination overlap, they do with a distance of minimum 8 bytes before copying 8 bytes at a time. In the user code, we should check check that the destination is at a lower address than source or than the end of the source is at a lower address than the destination before calling memmove. In the opposite case we fallback to the same code as the softmmu one. Note that l represents (length - 1). Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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