Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: fix MWAIT emulation for guests

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu May 04 2017 - 06:38:31 EST




On 04/05/2017 11:37, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>
> The kvm-unit-tests/vmx.flat fails against instruction(mwait) intercept test.
>
> Test suite: instruction intercept
> Unhandled exception 13 #GP at ip 0000000000402397
> error_code=0000 rflags=00010012 cs=00000008
> rax=0000000000000000 rcx=0000000004006172 rdx=0000000000402397 rbx=000000000041427d
> rbp=0000000007ff8fdf rsi=0000000000000000 rdi=0000000000000004
> r8=000000000000000a r9=00000000000003f8 r10=0000000000000000 r11=0000000000000000
> r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000
> cr0=0000000080010031 cr2=0000000000000000 cr3=0000000007fff000 cr4=0000000000002020
> cr8=0000000000000000
> STACK: @402397 401102 400459

The problem is simply that the tests were not clearing eax/ecx/edx.

Update kvm-unit-tests.git, it includes the "[PATCH] vmx: correctly set
up MONITOR and MWAIT" from April 27 (message id
1493309532-14398-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx).

Thanks,

Paolo