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SubjectRe: [PATCH -tip 0/6 V4] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer
Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hmm, I'd like to know actually kvm aims to emulate all kinds of
> instructions.

We're less interested in fpu/sse. The interesting instructions are
those used for page table management, mmio, and real mode execution.

> If so, I might find some bugs in x86_emulate.c.
> However, I don't know all bugs. To find all of them, we have to
> port x86_emulate.c to user-space, decode binaries with it, and
> compare its output with another decoder, as Jim had done with insn.c.
>
>

That would be very useful.


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