Re: [PATCH 0/7] Emulator exception improvements

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 05:53:20PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> This boring patchset introduces a struct x86_exception to represent an
> exception, and uses it to communicate between the emulator and the rest
> of kvm.  The primary benefit is that we can now pass a #GP from kvm into
> the emulator, not just #PFs.
> 
> I'd like to also fold vcpu->arch.fault into struct x86_exception, but that's
> more difficult, so deferred until later.
> 
> Avi Kivity (7):
>   KVM: x86 emulator: introduce struct x86_exception to communicate
>     faults
>   KVM: x86 emulator: make emulator memory callbacks return full
>     exception
>   KVM: x86 emulator: drop dead pf injection in emulate_popf()
>   KVM: x86 emulator: tighen up ->read_std() and ->write_std() error
>     checks
>   KVM: x86 emulator: simplify exception generation
>   KVM: Push struct x86_exception info the various gva_to_gpa variants
>   KVM: Push struct x86_exception into walk_addr()
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h |   26 +++--
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h    |   14 ++-
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c             |  243 ++++++++++++++----------------------
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c                 |   13 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h         |   31 +++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                 |   97 ++++++++-------
>  6 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 229 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.