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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: SVM: enable LBRV virtualization
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:20:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47B2C457.5040908@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080213100354.GA22943@amd.com>

Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>> This still has the same issue as the previous patchset:  if the guest enables some other bit 
>> in MSR_IA32_DEBUCTLMSR, we silently ignore it.  We should either pr_unimpl() on such bits or 
>> not handle them (ultimately injecting a #GP).
>>     
>
> Thats not true. The patch saves the MSR value in vmcb->save.dbgctl. This
> value is returned on reads of that MSR. So no bit is ignored. This value
> in the VMCB is also used as the guests copy of that MSR if LBR
> virtualization is enabled. 

Right, my mistake.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 15:27 KVM: SVM: Implement LBRV virtualization Joerg Roedel
2008-02-12 15:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: SVM: let init_vmcb() take struct vcpu_svm as parameter Joerg Roedel
2008-02-12 15:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: SVM: allocate the MSR permission map per VCPU Joerg Roedel
2008-02-12 15:27 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: SVM: enable LBRV virtualization Joerg Roedel
2008-02-13  9:50   ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-13 10:03     ` Joerg Roedel
2008-02-13 10:20       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-02-12 15:53 ` KVM: SVM: Implement " Maciej Kowalczyk
2008-02-12 16:01   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-02-12 16:35     ` Alexey Eremenko
2008-02-12 17:02       ` Joerg Roedel

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