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@ 2019-07-11 15:58 Sean Christopherson
  2019-07-11 15:58 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] KVM: nVMX: add tracepoint for failed nested VM-Enter Sean Christopherson
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From: Sean Christopherson @ 2019-07-11 15:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Paolo Bonzini, Radim Krčmář; +Cc: kvm

Debugging VM-Enter failures has been the bane of my existence for years.
Seeing KVM's VMCS dump format pop up on a console triggers a Pavlovian
response of swear words and sighs.  As KVM's coverage of VM-Enter checks
improve, so too do the odds of being able to triage/debug a KVM (or any
other hypervisor) bug by running the bad KVM build as an L1 guest.

Improve support for using KVM to debug a buggy VMM by adding tracepoints
to capture the basic gist of a VM-Enter failure so that extracting said
information from KVM doesn't require attaching a debugger or modifying
L0 KVM to manually log failures.

The captured information is by no means complete or perfect, e.g. I'd
love to capture *exactly* why a consistency check failed, but logging
that level of detail would require invasive code changes and might even
act as a deterrent to adding more checks in KVM.

v3: Fix a minor snafu in the v2 rebase, and re-rebase to kvm/next
    (a45ff5994c9c, "Merge tag 'kvm-arm-for-5.3'...")

v2: Rebase to kvm/queue.

Sean Christopherson (2):
  KVM: nVMX: add tracepoint for failed nested VM-Enter
  KVM: nVMX: trace nested VM-Enter failures detected by H/W

 arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h |  14 ++
 arch/x86/kvm/trace.h       |  22 +++
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c  | 269 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c         |   1 +
 4 files changed, 179 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)

-- 
2.22.0


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