[PATCH 30/46] KVM: x86 emulator: Add new mode of instruction emulation: skip

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Wed May 20 2009 - 07:29:04 EST


From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>

In the new mode instruction is decoded, but not executed. The EIP
is moved to point after the instruction.

Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 5 +++++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
index 0e3a7c6..cb306cf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h
@@ -562,6 +562,7 @@ enum emulation_result {

#define EMULTYPE_NO_DECODE (1 << 0)
#define EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD (1 << 1)
+#define EMULTYPE_SKIP (1 << 2)
int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_run *run,
unsigned long cr2, u16 error_code, int emulation_type);
void kvm_report_emulation_failure(struct kvm_vcpu *cvpu, const char *context);
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 9b89d9b..0c45df9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -2409,6 +2409,11 @@ int emulate_instruction(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
}
}

+ if (emulation_type & EMULTYPE_SKIP) {
+ kvm_rip_write(vcpu, vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt.decode.eip);
+ return EMULATE_DONE;
+ }
+
r = x86_emulate_insn(&vcpu->arch.emulate_ctxt, &emulate_ops);

if (vcpu->arch.pio.string)
--
1.6.0.6

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