From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:46:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5026BE.4080808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100728123918.GI26098@amd.com>
On 07/28/2010 03:39 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 07:53:59AM -0400, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> The test framework supports smp, so you can have the second vcpu do
>> nasty stuff. The difficult part is when the failure depends on host
>> state that is not visible to the guest. Perhaps we can add test-only
>> hypercalls that allow the guest to manipulate this state (drop shadows,
>> etc.)
> I just tried this out and it works great so far. Should be quite easy to
> add new tests to this framework (as long as the failure cases are no
> race conditions). I guess the small multiboot-kernels run with an
> identity mapped page table?
>
Yes. vm.c has some functions to add more complicated mappings.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-28 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-28 10:18 [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 1/8] test: move ARRAY_SIZE() to libcflat.h Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 2/8] test: move memset() to libcflat Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 3/8] test: add type bool Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 4/8] test: add processor register access functions Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 5/8] test: make use of new processor.h header Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 6/8] test: add svm definitions header Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 7/8] test: add msr " Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 10:18 ` [PATCH 8/8] test: add svm tests Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 11:40 ` [PATCH 0/8] Nested SVM unit tests Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-28 11:53 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-28 12:39 ` Roedel, Joerg
2010-07-28 12:46 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-07-29 16:55 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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