From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction" Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:55:58 -0400 Message-ID: <20180327045558.GC16974@char.us.oracle.com> References: <1522116735-4861-1-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> <1522116735-4861-3-git-send-email-wanpengli@tencent.com> <20180327044020.GB16974@char.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini , Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Andrew Cooper To: Wanpeng Li Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180327044020.GB16974@char.us.oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 12:40:20AM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:12:15PM -0700, Wanpeng Li wrote: > > From: Wanpeng Li > > > > This patch introduces a Force Emulation Prefix (ud2a; .ascii "kvm") for > > "emulate the next instruction", the codes will be executed by emulator > > instead of processor, for testing purposes. > > Can you expand a bit ? Why do you want this in KVM in the first place? > Should this be controlled by a boolean parameter? .. per guest. That is instead of a global one, have a per guest one?