From: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:39:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100728123918.GI26098@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C501A57.4010808@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:53:59AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
> The test framework supports smp, so you can have the second vcpu do
> nasty stuff. The difficult part is when the failure depends on host
> state that is not visible to the guest. Perhaps we can add test-only
> hypercalls that allow the guest to manipulate this state (drop shadows,
> etc.)
I just tried this out and it works great so far. Should be quite easy to
add new tests to this framework (as long as the failure cases are no
race conditions). I guess the small multiboot-kernels run with an
identity mapped page table?
Joerg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 10:18 [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] test: move ARRAY_SIZE() to libcflat.h Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] test: move memset() to libcflat Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] test: add type bool Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] test: add processor register access functions Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] test: make use of new processor.h header Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] test: add svm definitions header Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] test: add msr " Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] test: add svm tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 11:40 ` [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-28 11:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 12:39 ` Roedel, Joerg [this message]
2010-07-28 12:46 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-29 16:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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