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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kevin <kevin@koconnor.net>, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: kvm smm mode support?
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:02:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535B9252.7010406@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535B7F00.5080803@redhat.com>

Il 26/04/2014 11:40, Paolo Bonzini ha scritto:
> Il 25/04/2014 09:39, Gerd Hoffmann ha scritto:
>> Anyone has plans to add smm support to kvm?
>
> No plans, but it should be a Simple Matter Of Programming...

Well, we need:

- an extra ioctl to inject an SMI (can be modeled after KVM_NMI)

- an extra user exit triggered when SMM is entered or left

- an extra ioctl (or a GET/SET_ONE_REG implementation) to read/write 
whether we are in SMM, used to determine whether the #UD produced by RSM 
should be forwarded to the guest or trigger emulation.

Paolo

> A good start would be to write unit tests for SMM that work with QEMU.
> Too bad we're late, it could have been a nice summer of code project.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-26 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-25  7:39 kvm smm mode support? Gerd Hoffmann
2014-04-26  9:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-26 11:02   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-04-28 13:49     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-04-28 14:01       ` Kevin O'Connor
2014-04-28 14:22         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-04-28 13:40   ` Laszlo Ersek

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