From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Huaitong Han <huaitong.han@intel.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] target-i386: Use C struct for xsave area layout, offsets & sizes
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:28:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <565DBC93.8000001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151201152535.GK23717@thinpad.lan.raisama.net>
On 01/12/2015 16:25, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> > I think it's easier to use small guests (i.e. kvm-unit-tests) to test
> > this code.
>
> I agree it's easier, but how likely it is to catch bugs in the
> save/load code? If the code corrupts a register, we need to
> trigger a save/load cycle at the exact moment the guest code is
> using that register. Do we have something that helps us
> repeatedly save/load CPU state while kvm-unit-tests is running?
A vmware magic port read should do that. Put VMPORT_MAGIC in EAX and
VMPORT_CMD_GETVERSION in ECX, then do a 32-bit in from port 0x5658.
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-01 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-30 17:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] target-i386: Use C struct for xsave area layout, offsets & sizes Eduardo Habkost
2015-11-30 17:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] target-i386: Define structs for layout of xsave area Eduardo Habkost
2015-11-30 17:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] target-i386: Use xsave structs for ext_save_area Eduardo Habkost
2015-11-30 17:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] target-i386: kvm: Use X86XSaveArea struct for xsave save/load Eduardo Habkost
2015-12-01 10:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] target-i386: Use C struct for xsave area layout, offsets & sizes Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-01 15:27 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-12-01 15:09 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-12-01 15:25 ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-12-01 15:28 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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