Re: [PATCH 1/2] VMX: Properly return error to userspace on vmentry failure

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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/24/2010 01:01 AM, Mohammed Gamal wrote:
>>
>> The vmexit handler returns KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN since there is no handler
>> for vmentry failures. This intercepts vmentry failures and returns
>> KVM_FAIL_ENTRY to userspace instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mohammed Gamal<m.gamal005@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c |    7 +++++++
>>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> index 99ae513..4edcffb 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -3665,6 +3665,13 @@ static int vmx_handle_exit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>>        if (enable_ept&&  is_paging(vcpu))
>>                vcpu->arch.cr3 = vmcs_readl(GUEST_CR3);
>>
>> +       if (exit_reason&  VMX_EXIT_REASONS_FAILED_VMENTRY) {
>> +               vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY;
>> +               vcpu->run->fail_entry.hardware_entry_failure_reason
>> +                       = exit_reason&  ~VMX_EXIT_REASONS_FAILED_VMENTRY;
>> +               return 0;
>> +       }
>> +
>>        if (unlikely(vmx->fail)) {
>>                vcpu->run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY;
>>                vcpu->run->fail_entry.hardware_entry_failure_reason
>>
>
> How does the user distinguish between KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY due to an exit
> reason with bit 31 set and vmlauch/vmresume failure (vmx->fail set)?  We
> need separate exit codes (with documentation in api.txt).

In both cases the vm fails entry, and I don't think the hardware entry
failure reason codes would overlap between the vmx->fail case and exit
reasons with bit 31 set, so why should there be such distinction
between both cases?
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>
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