From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] KVM: SVM: Advance instruction pointer in dr_intercept Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:01:51 +0200 Message-ID: <4D63C1CF.9000208@redhat.com> References: <1297272584-22689-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <1297272584-22689-2-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com> <20110222111408.GH16508@amd.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Zachary Amsden To: "Roedel, Joerg" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110222111408.GH16508@amd.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 02/22/2011 01:14 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 12:29:39PM -0500, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > In the dr_intercept function a new cpu-feature called > > decode-assists is implemented and used when available. This > > code-path does not advance the guest-rip causing the guest > > to dead-loop over mov-dr instructions. This is fixed by this > > patch. > > > > Btw. Can you meanwhile apply this patch? It fixes a bug which sends the > guest into an endless loop when decode assists is available on the host. Yes of course - should have done that myself. Applied now, and queued for 2.6.38. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function