Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jun 2015 15:59:32 +0200 | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: x86: save/load state on SMM switch |
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On 03/06/2015 21:02, Radim Krčmář wrote: > > + if (r < 0) > > + return; > > And if we fail to write it, is there other option than throwing an error > to userspace? (Unset HF_SMM_MASK and pretend that nothing happened > doesn't find much support in docs.)
Just do nothing, I guess. If this is ROM, things will work (for some definition of work) the same as in real hardware. If it's MMIO, they will break as soon as the next instruction is executed.
Paolo
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