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2024-06-16 03:57:13 UTC Now

2020-10-24 07:14:30 UTC MAIN commitmail json YAML

Issue 64-bit versions of *XSAVE* for 64-bit amd64 programs

When calling FXSAVE, XSAVE, FXRSTOR, ... for 64-bit programs on amd64
use the 64-suffixed variant in order to include the complete FIP/FDP
registers in the x87 area.

The difference between the two variants is that the FXSAVE64 (new)
variant represents FIP/FDP as 64-bit fields (union fp_addr.fa_64),
while the legacy FXSAVE variant uses split fields: 32-bit offset,
16-bit segment and 16-bit reserved field (union fp_addr.fa_32).
The latter implies that the actual addresses are truncated to 32 bits
which is insufficient in modern programs.

The change is applied only to 64-bit programs on amd64.  Plain i386
and compat32 continue using plain FXSAVE.  Similarly, NVMM is not
changed as I am not familiar with that code.

This is a potentially breaking change.  However, I don't think it likely
to actually break anything because the data provided by the old variant
were not meaningful (because of the truncated pointer).

(mgorny)