Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"

From: Wanpeng Li
Date: Tue Mar 27 2018 - 03:29:37 EST


2018-03-27 15:25 GMT+08:00 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 27/03/2018 07:18, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
>>> I think a global module is enough for testing.
>> If so, perhaps have it wrapped with #ifdef DEBUG?
>>
>> No need to put code gadgets that won't be utilized 99% of time.
>
> It is going to be used a lot in testing, actually. There are quite a
> few emulate.c bugfixes that are hard to test (see for example the
> syscall eflags.tf bug that can currently be tested only on Intel) and
> having something like this can only improve our coverage.
>
> #ifdef DEBUG is almost always a bad idea, and though I agree that the
> commit messages can be improved, I think the module parameter is the way
> to go.
>
> Wanpeng, can you also add it to svm.c?

Yeah, thanks for the review. :)

Regards,
Wanpeng Li