Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 02/14/2010 06:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>   
>>> On 02/14/2010 01:39 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>     
>>>>> that will work for both VMX and SVM before applying patches that make
>>>>> oly VMX work?
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>> VMX used to work, so my patch is actually a regression fix. I bet this
>>>> was accidentally broken while cleaning up the interrupt handling of
>>>> VMX.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        
>>> Care to post a test case?
>>>
>>> I can't say we run the internal test suite at the moment, but it should
>>> really be integrated into autotest.
>>>
>>>      
>> I know this should have been done long before. I just haven't worked on
>> autotest so far (a colleague did, though), so there is some reluctance
>> to get wet feet. But maybe I find some rubber boots.
>>    
> 
> The autotest people (Lucas copied) are generally good at adding tests,
> so all we need to do is (a) add a test case to
> qemu-kvm.git:kvm/user/test (b) indicate to the autotest people how to
> build and run this thing.

I wonder if it requires a stand-alone test. So far I'm testing the guest
side via gdb installed in some Linux image. We need to interact with gdb
anyway to test guest debugging, so this would just add another instance
and some indirection (via serial console or ssh into the guest).

Jan

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