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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Cc: kvm list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: What's with all of the hardcoded instruction lengths in svm.c?
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 19:01:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woho5ceb.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALMp9eTe_iSgn5ihod_B=H1JzXwc_=CW22u+5sQCyPT=EJuLPQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 6:55 AM Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> I can try sending a patch removing the manual advancement to see if
>> anyone has any objections.
>
> That would be great!
>

Turns out this is harder than I initially thought, in the emulator we
don't emulate everything (e.g. XSETVB) and emulating some instructions
(even with EMULTYPE_SKIP) gives us some unintended side-effects,
e.g. I'm currently observing a hang when trying to apply
kvm_emulate_instruction() to HLT.  

Overall, I still think this is the right approach, we just need to make
EMULTYPE_SKIP skip correctly. Stay tuned...

-- 
Vitaly

      reply	other threads:[~2019-06-14 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-12 20:17 What's with all of the hardcoded instruction lengths in svm.c? Jim Mattson
2019-06-13 13:55 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2019-06-13 16:08   ` Jim Mattson
2019-06-14 17:01     ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]

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