From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: "Kang, Luwei" <luwei.kang@intel.com>
Cc: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
"Michał Leszczyński" <michal.leszczynski@cert.pl>,
"Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] Implement support for external IPT monitoring
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:53:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200617125339.GB735@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM5PR1101MB22669E5CB0C4384B1005A58E809A0@DM5PR1101MB2266.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:37:13PM +0000, Kang, Luwei wrote:
> > How does KVM deal with this, do they insert/modify trace packets on trapped
> > and emulated instructions by the VMM?
>
> The KVM includes instruction decoder and emulator(arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c), and the guest's memory can be set to write-protect as well. But it doesn't support Intel PT packets software emulator. For KVM, the Intel PT feature will be exposed to KVM guest and KVM guest can use Intel PT feature like native.
But if such feature is exposed to the guest for it's own usage, won't
it be missing packets for instructions emulated by the VMM?
Thanks, Roger.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-17 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-16 15:16 [PATCH v1 0/7] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 15:19 ` [PATCH v1 1/7] x86/vmx: add Intel PT MSR definitions Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 13:31 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-16 15:20 ` [PATCH v1 2/7] x86/vmx: add IPT cpu feature Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 16:30 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 11:34 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-16 15:21 ` [PATCH v1 3/7] x86/vmx: add ipt_state as part of vCPU state Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 16:33 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-16 15:22 ` [PATCH v1 4/7] x86/vmx: add do_vmtrace_op Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 17:23 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 19:13 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 3:20 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-18 11:01 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 11:55 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-18 12:51 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 13:09 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 13:24 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 13:40 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-18 8:46 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-18 15:25 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 15:39 ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 15:47 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-18 15:49 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-16 15:22 ` [PATCH v1 5/7] tools/libxc: add xc_ptbuf_* functions Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 15:23 ` [PATCH v1 6/7] tools/proctrace: add proctrace tool Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 15:24 ` [PATCH v1 7/7] x86/vmx: switch IPT MSRs on vmentry/vmexit Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 17:38 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-16 17:47 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-17 9:09 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 11:54 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-17 12:51 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 15:14 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-17 18:56 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 8:52 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-18 11:07 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 11:49 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 23:30 ` Kang, Luwei
2020-06-18 10:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-18 17:38 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-16 18:17 ` [PATCH v1 0/7] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Andrew Cooper
2020-06-16 18:47 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-16 20:16 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-17 3:02 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-17 16:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-17 16:27 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-17 17:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-17 19:31 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-17 19:30 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-17 20:20 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 8:25 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-18 14:59 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-17 1:35 ` Tian, Kevin
2020-06-17 6:45 ` Kang, Luwei
2020-06-17 9:21 ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-17 12:37 ` Kang, Luwei
2020-06-17 12:53 ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2020-06-17 23:29 ` Kang, Luwei
2020-06-18 0:56 ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 7:00 ` Roger Pau Monné
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