Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: VMX: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"

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2018-03-27 12:40 GMT+08:00 Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 07:12:15PM -0700, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> From: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch introduces a Force Emulation Prefix (ud2a; .ascii "kvm") for
>> "emulate the next instruction", the codes will be executed by emulator
>> instead of processor, for testing purposes.
>
> Can you expand a bit ? Why do you want this in KVM in the first place?
> Should this be controlled by a boolean parameter?
>>
>> A testcase here:
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>> #include <string.h>
>>
>> #define HYPERVISOR_INFO 0x40000000
>>
>> #define CPUID(idx, eax, ebx, ecx, edx)\
>>     asm volatile (\
>>     "ud2a; .ascii \"kvm\"; 1: cpuid" \
>>     :"=b" (*ebx), "=a" (*eax),"=c" (*ecx), "=d" (*edx)\
>>         :"0"(idx) );
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>>       unsigned int eax,ebx,ecx,edx;
>>       char string[13];
>>
>>       CPUID(HYPERVISOR_INFO, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
>>       *(unsigned int *)(string+0) = ebx;
>>       *(unsigned int *)(string+4) = ecx;
>>       *(unsigned int *)(string+8) = edx;
>>
>>       string[12] = 0;
>>       if (strncmp(string, "KVMKVMKVM\0\0\0",12) == 0)
>>               printf("kvm guest\n");
>>       else
>>               printf("bare hardware\n");
>> }
>>
>> Suggested-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> index 0f99833..90abed8 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -108,6 +108,9 @@ module_param_named(enable_shadow_vmcs, enable_shadow_vmcs, bool, S_IRUGO);
>>  static bool __read_mostly nested = 0;
>>  module_param(nested, bool, S_IRUGO);
>>
>> +static bool __read_mostly fep = 0;
>> +module_param(fep, bool, S_IRUGO);
>> +
>>  static u64 __read_mostly host_xss;
>>
>>  static bool __read_mostly enable_pml = 1;
>> @@ -6218,8 +6221,21 @@ static int handle_machine_check(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>  static int handle_ud(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>  {
>>       enum emulation_result er;
>> +     int emulation_type = EMULTYPE_TRAP_UD;
>> +
>> +     if (fep) {
>> +             char sig[5]; /* ud2; .ascii "kvm" */
>> +             struct x86_exception e;
>
> Don't you want to do = { };
> to memset it?

sig buffer will be filled by insns which are fetched from guest
memory, so I think not memset is fine.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li




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