Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 0/3] Add L2 exception handling KVM unit tests for nSVM

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+Aaron, and +Paolo who may or may not subsribe to kvm@ :-)

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021, Manali Shukla wrote:
> This series adds 3 KVM Unit tests for nested SVM
> 1) Check #NM is handled in L2 when L2 #NM handler is registered
>    "fnop" instruction is called in L2 to generate the exception
> 
> 2) Check #BP is handled in L2 when L2 #BP handler is registered
>    "int3" instruction is called in L2 to generate the exception
> 
> 3) Check #OF is handled in L2 when L2 #OF handler is registered
>    "into" instruction with instrumented code is used in L2 to
>    generate the exception

This is all basically identical in terms of desired functionality to existing or
in-flight nVMX tests, e.g. vmx_nm_test() and Aaron's vmx_exception_test() work[*].
And much of the feedback I provided to Aaron's earlier revisions applies to this
series as well, e.g. create a framework to test intercpetion of arbitrary exceptions
instead of writing the same boilerplate for each and every test.

It doesn't seem like it'd be _that_ difficult to turn vmx_exception_test into a
generic-ish l2_exception_test.  To avoid too much scope creep, what if we first get
Aaron's code merged, and than attempt to extract the core functionality into a
shared library to reuse it for nSVM?  If it turns out to be more trouble then its
worth, we can always fall back to something like this series.

[*] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211214011823.3277011-1-aaronlewis@xxxxxxxxxx



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