[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/5] vmxcap: Open MSR file in unbuffered mode

[Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>]

From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>

Python may otherwise decide to to read larger chunks, applying the seek
only on the software buffer. This will return results from the wrong
MSRs.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/kvm/vmxcap | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/kvm/vmxcap b/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
index 0b23f77..6363e73 100755
--- a/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
+++ b/scripts/kvm/vmxcap
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ MSR_IA32_VMX_VMFUNC = 0x491
 class msr(object):
     def __init__(self):
         try:
-            self.f = file('/dev/cpu/0/msr')
+            self.f = open('/dev/cpu/0/msr', 'r', 0)
         except:
-            self.f = file('/dev/msr0')
+            self.f = open('/dev/msr0', 'r', 0)
     def read(self, index, default = None):
         import struct
         self.f.seek(index)
-- 
1.8.1.4