Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 06/15] x86/emul: Rework emulator event injection

[Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/23/2016 10:38 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The emulator needs to gain an understanding of interrupts and exceptions
> generated by its actions.
>
> Move hvm_emulate_ctxt.{exn_pending,trap} into struct x86_emulate_ctxt so they
> are visible to the emulator.  This removes the need for the
> inject_{hw,sw}_interrupt() hooks, which are dropped and replaced with
> x86_emul_{hw_exception,software_event}() instead.
>
> The shadow pagetable and PV uses of x86_emulate() previously failed with
> X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE due to the lack of inject_*() hooks, but this behaviour
> has subtly changed.  Adjust the return value checking to cause a pending event
> to fall back into the previous codepath.
>
> No overall functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>


Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

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