Re: [PATCH v2 06/12] VMX: add VMFUNC leaf 0 (EPTP switching) to emulator.

[Ed White <edmund.h.white@intel.com>]

On 06/24/2015 05:47 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> +    case EXIT_REASON_VMFUNC:
>> +        if ( vmx_vmfunc_intercept(regs) == X86EMUL_OKAY )
> 
> This is currently an unconditional failure, and I don't see subsequent
> patches which alter vmx_vmfunc_intercept().  Shouldn't
> vmx_vmfunc_intercept() switch on eax and optionally call
> p2m_switch_vcpu_altp2m_by_id()?

If the VMFUNC instruction was valid, the hardware would have executed it.
The only time a VMFUNC exit occurs is if the hardware supports VMFUNC
and the hypervisor has enabled it, but the VMFUNC instruction is
invalid in some way and can't be executed (because EAX != 0, for example).

There are only two choices: crash the domain or inject #UD (which is the
closest analogue to what happens in the absence of a hypervisor and will
probably crash the OS in the domain). I chose the latter in the code I
originally wrote; Ravi chose the former in his patch. I don't have a
strong opinion either way, but I think these are the only two choices.

I hope this answers Jan's question in another email on the same subject.

Ed