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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v4] x86/monitor: Notify monitor if an emulation fails.



On 07/12/2017 08:21 PM, Petre Pircalabu wrote:
> If case of a vm_event with the emulate_flags set, if the instruction
> cannot be emulated, the monitor should be notified instead of directly
> injecting a hw exception.
> This behavior can be used to re-execute an instruction not supported by
> the emulator using the real processor (e.g. altp2m) instead of just
> crashing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Petre Pircalabu <ppircalabu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> ---
> Changed since v1:
>   * Removed the emulation kind check when calling hvm_inject_hw_exception
> 
> Changed since v2:
>   * Removed a file added by mistake
> 
> Changed since v3:
>   * Removed extra stray line
>   * Added the _enabled suffix to the emul_unhandleable monitor option

I think for these mechanical-only changes you could have kept Wei's ack.


Thanks,
Razvan

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