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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] KVM: prevent spurious exit to userspace during task
 switch emulation.
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:10:23 +0300
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On 04/15/2010 01:09 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> If kvm_task_switch() fails code exits to userspace without specifying
> exit reason, so the previous exit reason is reused by userspace. Fix
> this by specifying exit reason correctly.
>
> ---
> Changelog:
>   v1->v2:
>    - report emulation error to userspace instead of ignoring it silently.
>
>    

Yeah, better than logging to dmesg.

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