Re: [PATCH v2 kvm-unit-tests 2/2] replace tss_descr global with a function

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On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 2:12 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 20/10/21 22:46, Jim Mattson wrote:
> >> -       vmcs_write(GUEST_LIMIT_TR, tss_descr.limit);
> >> +       vmcs_write(GUEST_LIMIT_TR, 0x67);
> > Isn't the limit still set to 0xFFFF in {cstart,cstart64}.S? And
> > doesn't the VMware backdoor test assume there's room for an I/O
> > permission bitmap?
> >
>
> Yes, but this is just for L2.  The host TR limit is restored to 0x67 on
> every vmexit, and it seemed weird to run L1 and L2 with different limits.

Perhaps you could change the limits in the GDT entries to match?



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