On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > RDPMC can cause a general protection fault if ECX is not within the > valid range for performance counters. Tweak the test to ensure that > ECX is valid. > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > x86/vmx_tests.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/x86/vmx_tests.c b/x86/vmx_tests.c > index b3ddec6..d851692 100644 > --- a/x86/vmx_tests.c > +++ b/x86/vmx_tests.c > @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ asm( > "insn_hlt: hlt;ret\n\t" > "insn_invlpg: invlpg 0x12345678;ret\n\t" > "insn_mwait: mwait;ret\n\t" > - "insn_rdpmc: rdpmc;ret\n\t" > + "insn_rdpmc: xor %ecx, %ecx; rdpmc;ret\n\t" > "insn_rdtsc: rdtsc;ret\n\t" > "insn_cr3_load: mov cr3,%rax; mov %rax,%cr3;ret\n\t" > "insn_cr3_store: mov %cr3,%rax;ret\n\t" > -- > 2.5.0 > Thanks! We had this, byte for byte, in our internal patch queue already :-) You beat me to the punch getting it upstream. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html