Well the bits for the sysenter msrs (0x174 - 0x176) are definitely set -- but I still only see exits for 0x200 - 0x2ff. And I definitely wrmsr(l)(MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_*) at vmx_vcpu_setup() time. Ive been going over Ch. 20, and still cant figure out what could be going on here.
Steven
>Right, but I've tried commenting those calls out, even disabling CPU_BASED_USE_MSR_BITMAPS, allocation >of vmx_msr_bitmap and so on -- without effect. Ive started trying to interrogate the (now-reinstituted) >vmx_msr_bitmap from vmx_vcpu_setup, since the controls can be rewritten there...
>Steven
----- Original Message -----
From: "Avi Kivity" <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Steven Stovall" <sstovall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "kvm" <kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 8:27:07 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: handle_wrmsr behavior under kvm-83
Steven Stovall wrote:
> When looking at the EXIT_REASON_MSR_WRITE events that trigger handle_wrmsr() invocations, why do I only seem to see indices for MSR_MTRRfix* (0x250 - 0x2ff)? This behavior seems to have changed since kvm-60, where I would see for example SYSENTER MSR writes.
>
In vmx_init():
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(vmx_msr_bitmap, MSR_FS_BASE);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(vmx_msr_bitmap, MSR_GS_BASE);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(vmx_msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_CS);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(vmx_msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_ESP);
vmx_disable_intercept_for_msr(vmx_msr_bitmap, MSR_IA32_SYSENTER_EIP);
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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