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From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm tools: Add ability to assert/deassert IRQs
 using 'kvm debug'
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:33:55 +0200
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On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:19 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Add options to assert and deassert IRQs using 'kvm debug'. For example, to
> assert IRQ4 in guest 'my_instance':
> 
> 	vm debug -n my_instance --assert_irq 4
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>

Why is this useful? How does it protect against random users asserting
IRQs in the guest?

			Pekka