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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:23:56 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BE57AC.3020002@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDD62F6E-E905-4BB5-96D4-4FD0F57A507A@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> +        svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_2 = svm->vcpu.arch.cr2;
>>>
>>
>> #vmexit isn't supposed to modify cr2, but we've corrupted it here.
>
> Well, yes and no. We modified the arch.cr2 but later on in vcpu_run we 
> don't set the vmcb cr2 field based on that when we're running inside a 
> VM, so cr2 stays the same as before.

What about later, when there is a virtual #VMEXIT?  Won't that cr2 leak in?

>>> +    /* Kill any pending exceptions */
>>> +    if (svm->vcpu.arch.exception.pending == true)
>>> +        nsvm_printk("WARNING: Pending Exception\n");
>>>
>>
>> This should set control.exit_int_info.
>
> This is more of a fallback. No exceptions should be in "injecting" 
> state on vmexit. That would mean that after an exit that was not 
> handled in the nested VMM we need to inject some exception, which 
> should in almost all cases already raise a #VMEXIT itself. So this 
> should never hit. 

What about, say, #PF on the IDT when attempting to inject an exception?  
We should tell the guest about that so it can reinject the exception 
into its own guest.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-03  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01 11:57 [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add CPUID feature flag for SVM Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57   ` [PATCH 2/9] Clean up VINTR setting Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57     ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57       ` [PATCH 4/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57         ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow setting the SVME bit Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57           ` [PATCH 6/9] Implement hsave Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57             ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:58               ` [PATCH 8/9] Add VMRUN handler Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:58                 ` [PATCH 9/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:58                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-02 16:15                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-03  9:23                       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-03  9:33                         ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-03  9:47                           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-03 11:55                             ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:41                 ` [PATCH 8/9] Add VMRUN handler Avi Kivity
2008-09-02 15:38                   ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:27               ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:14                 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:27                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:49                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:15             ` [PATCH 6/9] Implement hsave Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:11               ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:26                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:21             ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:14           ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow setting the SVME bit Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:11       ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:02         ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:25           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 15:37             ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 16:05               ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 16:13                 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 16:17                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 16:40                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-02  9:15                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:13     ` [PATCH 2/9] Clean up VINTR setting Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 12:09 ` [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 12:21 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-01 13:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-01 14:17   ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:22     ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:47       ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:57         ` Avi Kivity

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