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From: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
To: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/20] x86: emulator enhancements
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 11:21:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43d0151b-e96a-4892-3890-27eb1a67ae4d@bitdefender.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A96B3B902000078001ACB6D@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On 02/28/2018 02:50 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 01: extend vbroadcasts{s,d} to AVX2
> 02: support most remaining AVX2 insns
> 03: support AVX2 gather insns
> 04: support XOP insns
> 05: support 3DNow! insns
> 06: place test blobs in executable section
> 07: move and rename XSTATE_*
> 08: abstract out XCRn accesses
> 09: adjust_bnd() should check XCR0
> 10: make all FPU emulation use the stub
> 11: eliminate custom #MF/#XM handling
> 12: support SWAPGS
> 13: tell cmpxchg hook whether LOCK is in effect
> 14: convert page table emulation code from paddr_t to intpte_t
> 15: correctly handle CMPXCHG* comparison failures
> 16: add read-modify-write hook
> 17: x86/HVM: do actual CMPXCHG in hvmemul_cmpxchg()
> 18: x86/HVM: make use of new read-modify-write emulator hook
> 19: x86/shadow: fully move unmap-dest into common code
> 20: x86/shadow: fold sh_x86_emulate_{write,cmpxchg}() into their only callers
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

FWIW, I've test-driven this series with our introspection agent for the
last couple of days, and it does solve the emulation race condition
problem we've discussed previously.


Thanks,
Razvan

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02  9:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28 12:50 [PATCH v4 00/20] x86: emulator enhancements Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 12:57 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] x86emul: extend vbroadcasts{s, d} to AVX2 Jan Beulich
2018-03-02 19:08   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-28 12:58 ` [PATCH v4 02/20] x86emul: support most remaining AVX2 insns Jan Beulich
2018-03-05 13:39   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-03-05 14:50     ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 12:58 ` [PATCH v4 03/20] x86emul: support AVX2 gather insns Jan Beulich
2018-03-05 14:15   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-28 12:59 ` [PATCH v4 04/20] x86emul: support XOP insns Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 12:59 ` [PATCH v4 05/20] x86emul: support 3DNow! insns Jan Beulich
2018-03-05 14:55   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-28 13:00 ` [PATCH v4 06/20] x86emul: place test blobs in executable section Jan Beulich
2018-03-06 11:28   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-03-06 13:33     ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:00 ` [PATCH v4 07/20] x86: move and rename XSTATE_* Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:01   ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:06     ` Paul Durrant
2018-03-05 15:27   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-28 13:03 ` [PATCH v4 08/20] x86emul: abstract out XCRn accesses Jan Beulich
2018-03-05 15:56   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-03-08  9:33     ` Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:04 ` [PATCH v4 09/20] x86emul: adjust_bnd() should check XCR0 Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:04 ` [PATCH v4 10/20] x86emul: make all FPU emulation use the stub Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:05 ` [PATCH v4 11/20] x86/HVM: eliminate custom #MF/#XM handling Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:06 ` [PATCH v4 12/20] x86emul: support SWAPGS Jan Beulich
2018-03-05 15:58   ` Andrew Cooper
2018-02-28 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 13/20] x86emul: tell cmpxchg hook whether LOCK is in effect Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:08 ` [PATCH v4 14/20] x86/PV: convert page table emulation code from paddr_t to intpte_t Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:09 ` [PATCH v4 15/20] x86emul: correctly handle CMPXCHG* comparison failures Jan Beulich
2018-03-01  7:16   ` Tim Deegan
2018-02-28 13:10 ` [PATCH v4 16/20] x86emul: add read-modify-write hook Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:11 ` [PATCH v4 17/20] x86/HVM: do actual CMPXCHG in hvmemul_cmpxchg() Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:12 ` [PATCH v4 18/20] x86/HVM: make use of new read-modify-write emulator hook Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:13 ` [PATCH v4 19/20] x86/shadow: fully move unmap-dest into common code Jan Beulich
2018-02-28 13:13 ` [PATCH v4 20/20] x86/shadow: fold sh_x86_emulate_{write, cmpxchg}() into their only callers Jan Beulich
2018-03-02  9:21 ` Razvan Cojocaru [this message]

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