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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [RFC][PATCH 2/4] kvm: Arch-specifc KVM_EXIT_DEBUG payload
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:04:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48344820.60103@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <482DAFF6.3050403@web.de>

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> This adds an arch field to kvm_run.debug, the payload that is returned
> to user space on KVM_EXIT_DEBUG guest exits. For x86, this field is now
> supposed to report the precise debug exception (#DB or #BP) and the
> current state of the debug registers (the latter is not yet
> implemented).
>  
> +struct kvm_debug_exit_arch {
> +	__u32 exception;
>   

Need padding here.

> +	__u64 dr[8];
> +};
> +
>   

In general I prefer decoding bitfields into something more usable (see 
for example the segment registers), but in this case, I guess the raw 
registers are better.

We need to handle branch tracing and last branch recording as well.  It 
doesn't have to be in this patchset, though.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <482D9198.7040801@web.de>
2008-05-16 16:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/4] qemu: refactor cpu_watch/breakpoint API Jan Kiszka
2008-05-16 16:01 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/4] kvm: Arch-specifc KVM_EXIT_DEBUG payload Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 15:59   ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 13:27     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 16:04   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-22 13:42     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 13:59       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 14:32         ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 14:35           ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-16 16:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/4] kvm-vmx: KVM_EXIT_DEBUG on #BP exceptions Jan Kiszka
2008-05-21 16:01   ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 13:31     ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 13:58       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 14:24         ` Jan Kiszka
2008-05-22 14:31           ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 14:26       ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-05-22 14:34         ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-22 18:27           ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-05-25 10:24             ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-16 16:02 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/4] kvm-userspace: use soft-BPs for guest debugging Jan Kiszka

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