Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Cache IA32_DEBUGCTL in memory

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:26:30PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 29/11/2017 19:20, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > But I haven't looked too closely, but I suspect you'll clobber global
> > kernel debugger state this way.
> 
> I checked all callers of update_debugctlmsr, and couldn't find any that
> could run asynchronously while KVM is caching the value.  For example
> __switch_to_xtra would always run before the sched_in notifier.

True. It would only be a problem if the debugger supported branch stepping
or LBRs, which it doesn't seem to currently.

-Andi