Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v1 3/3] s390x: add pgm spec interrupt loop test

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On 6/30/22 19:11, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 30/06/2022 16.38, Janis Schoetterl-Glausch wrote:
>> On 6/30/22 13:30, Nico Boehr wrote:
>>> An invalid PSW causes a program interrupt. When an invalid PSW is
>>> introduced in the pgm_new_psw, an interrupt loop occurs as soon as a
>>> program interrupt is caused.
>>>
>>> QEMU should detect that and panick the guest, hence add a test for it.
>>
>> Why is that, after all in LPAR it would just spin, right?
> 
> Not sure what the LPAR is doing, but the guest is certainly completely unusable, so a panic event is the right thing to do here for QEMU.

I suppose some other kind of interrupt could fix things up somehow, but I guess in practice
panicking does indeed make more sense.




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