Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Emulate next_rip svm feature

[Avi Kivity]

 On 07/28/2010 03:18 PM, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > The guest (L2 in this case) is doomed since it execution cannot
> > continue.  But L1 and L0 are fine.  The problem with L2 avoiding
> > intercepts is that L2 can change control registers and take over L1.
> Right too. We can not ignore it. The right fix is probably a check for
> the instruction intercepts right after the decoder has run and before
> the emulator ran.

Should be easy - just like we have the Priv flag, add a bitfield to 
opcode_table that says which bit we need to check in the control area.

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signature is too narrow to contain.

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