Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] kvm: x86: Rename KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD to KVM_DEBUGREG_NEED_RELOAD | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:16:14 +0200 |
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On 25/04/20 18:54, Nadav Amit wrote: >> I wonder if KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD is needed at all. It should be easy to >> write selftests for it, using the testcase in commit message >> 172b2386ed16 and the information in commit ae561edeb421. > I must be missing something, since I did not follow this thread and other > KVM changes very closely. > > Yet, for the record, I added KVM_DEBUGREG_RELOAD due to real experienced > issues that I had while running Intel’s fuzzing tests on KVM: IIRC, the DRs > were not reloaded after an INIT event that clears them.
Indeed, but the code has changed since then and I'm not sure it is still needed.
> Personally, I would prefer that a test for that, if added, would be added > to KVM-unit-tests, based on Liran’s INIT test. This would allow to confirm > bare-metal behaves as the VM.
Yes, that would be good as well of course.
Paolo
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