Re: [Xen-devel] Question related to Single-step execution and Emulation

["Grzegorz Miłoś" <gm281@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you working with an HVM or PV domain?
Gr(z)egor(z)

>
> Hi all,
>
>
> I am trying to perform single-stepping and instruction emulation both in 
> Xen-3.2.1. I am using the following approach:
>
> First, I mark a guest page "not present" inside the shadow page table so that 
> I could intercept any operation that involves this page. When the guest tries 
> to access that page, it faults and control goes to Xen (sh_page_fault 
> function). There, I emulate that operation and return the control to guest to 
> execute next instruction. I could get my first part working.
>
> In the second part after emulating the instruction inside Xen, I want to 
> perform single-step execution from next instruction onwards so that I could 
> monitor further execution of guest from that point.
>
> To achieve that I did following: After emulating an instruction inside Xen 
> and before sending the control back to guest OS, I set the EFLAGS's trap bit 
> set by doing following operation:
>
> regs->eflag |= X86_EFLAGS_TF
>
> And return the control from sh_page_fault function by saying "return 
> EFAULT_FIXED".
>
> My understanding is that with this flag set when guest completes the 
> execution of the next instruction, it traps to Xen with exit reason 
> TRAP_debug and do_debug handler should be invoked inside x86/traps.c. From 
> there, again I set X86_EFLAGS_TF flag to get guest trapped for next 
> instruction and so on. When i want it to be end I will set X86_EFLAGS_RF flag.
>
> However, when I perform above-mentioned procedure I get to see a message 
> "Trace/breakpoint trap" in my guest OS only once and my do_debug or 
> (debugger_trap_entry method with vector = Trap_debug) does not get invoked at 
> all inside Xen. Since trap is not coming into Xen, I am not able to get the 
> control after execution of instructions.
>
> It seems like with my above-described method, I am injecting TRAP_debug 
> exception for the instruction that I emulate inside the Xen. And, eflag is 
> not set in the context of next instruction that will be executed inside the 
> guest, which should trap with debug exception.

>
>
> It would be great if someone could explain me what i am doing wrong here and 
> if yes what would be the right approach to perform single-step execution in 
> Xen.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Abhinav
>
>
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