From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] vmx: Restore debug registers when injecting #DB traps
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:07:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E976B602000078000DD2D9@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457713413-2157-1-git-send-email-ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
>>> On 11.03.16 at 17:23, <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com> wrote:
> Commit a929bee0e652 ("x86/vmx: Fix injection of #DB traps following
> XSA-156") prevents an infinite loop in certain #DB traps. However, it
> changed the behavior to not call hvm_hw_inject_trap() for #DB and #AC
> traps which which means that the debug registers are not restored
> correctly and nullified commit b56ae5b48c38 ("VMX: fix/adjust trap
> injection").
Btw., may I please ask that you refer to master branch commits
in commit messages in the future? Both commit IDs above refer to
backports.
Jan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-11 16:23 [PATCH v2] vmx: Restore debug registers when injecting #DB traps Ross Lagerwall
2016-03-14 8:57 ` Jan Beulich
2016-03-15 4:37 ` Tian, Kevin
2016-03-16 14:07 ` Jan Beulich [this message]
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