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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Vendor specific instructions and the emulator
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 11:25:24 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110204132523.GA10492@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1296570724-18383-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com>

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 04:32:01PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Currently we have some ad-hoc code in x86.c to restrict #UD emulation to
> expected instructions (that is, vendor specific instructions).  This patchset
> replaces the ad-hoc code with proper emulator support using decode tables.
> 
> Avi Kivity (3):
>   KVM: Drop bogus x86_decode_insn() error check
>     v2: replaces v1's first two patches
>   KVM: x86 emulator: vendor specific instructions
>   KVM: Drop ad-hoc vendor specific instruction restriction
>     v3: preserve early-exit on #UD (reexecute_instruction() isn't reliable
>         since we don't have a valid cr2)
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_emulate.h |    1 +
>  arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c             |   12 +++++++++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c                 |   36 +++++-------------------------------
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 14:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 14:32 [PATCH v3 0/3] Vendor specific instructions and the emulator Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 14:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] KVM: Drop bogus x86_decode_insn() error check Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 14:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] KVM: x86 emulator: vendor specific instructions Avi Kivity
2011-02-01 14:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] KVM: Drop ad-hoc vendor specific instruction restriction Avi Kivity
2011-02-04 13:25 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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