linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Emulate VMXON region correctly

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Date:	Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:11:10 -0400
From:	Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Emulate VMXON region correctly

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> writes:

> Il 06/05/2014 08:19, Bandan Das ha scritto:
>> Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54521
>>
>> The vmxon region is unused by nvmx, but adding these checks
>> are probably harmless and may detect buggy L1 hypervisors in
>> the future!
>
> Applied to kvm/queue, unit test patches are welcome (hint, hint!).

Jan and Paolo,

Ok, I thought a little bit about this and I am wondering what 
kind of tests we could have here. All the changes are pure 
checks and no data is returned back to the guest. The
vmxon code in kvm-unit-tests already does the right thing i.e
sets the revision identifier, allocs a page for the region etc

> Paolo
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