From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] KVM updates for Linux 2.6.24-rc review Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:12:12 +0200 Message-ID: <471B340C.5010800@qumranet.com> References: <1192964892617-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Laurent Vivier Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1192964892617-git-send-email-avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > The following patches fix fallout from the main 2.6.24 KVM merge. An > exception is the movnti emulation patch, which adds support for Linux > 2.6.16 guests. > > The patches can be found in kvm.git in the branch kvm-updates-2.6.24. > There is also a branch kvm-updates-2.6.25 which will form the basis of > the next merge window submission. > > Please review the patches and let me know if something is wrong or if > a patch is missing. > > Laurent, I believe the following patch (in kvm-updates-2.6.25) needs to go into 2.6.24 as well. Can you comment on this? > commit 6de232e39be372f85bea96eb741962acc7fcb1f7 > Author: Laurent Vivier > Date: Mon Oct 1 11:01:06 2007 +0200 > > KVM: x86 emulator: Correct management of REP prefix > > This patch corrects some errors appearing when we have an > emulation failure > on an operation using REP prefix. > > When x86_emulate_insn() fails, saving EIP and ECX is not enough as > emulation > should have modified other registers like RSI or RDI. Moreover, > the emulation > can fail on the writeback, and in this case we are not able to restore > registers. > > At beginning of x86_emulate_insn(), we restore registers from vcpu > as they were > not modified by x86d_decode_insn() and we save EIP to be able to > restore it > in case of failure. > -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/