linux-kernel - [PATCH 25/40] KVM: Ignore DEBUGCTL MSRs with no effect

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Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:46:39 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
Subject: [PATCH 25/40] KVM: Ignore DEBUGCTL MSRs with no effect

From: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>

Netware writes to DEBUGCTL and reads from the DEBUGCTL and LAST*IP MSRs
without further checks and is really confused to receive a #GP during that.
To make it happy we should just make them stubs, which is exactly what SVM
already does.

Writes to DEBUGCTL that are vendor-specific are resembled to behave as if the
virtual CPU does not know them.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 5620df2..94a2165 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -665,6 +665,18 @@ int kvm_set_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 data)
 		pr_unimpl(vcpu, "%s: MSR_IA32_MCG_CTL 0x%llx, nop\n",
 			__func__, data);
 		break;
+	case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
+		if (!data) {
+			/* We support the non-activated case already */
+			break;
+		} else if (data & ~(DEBUGCTLMSR_LBR | DEBUGCTLMSR_BTF)) {
+			/* Values other than LBR and BTF are vendor-specific,
+			   thus reserved and should throw a #GP */
+			return 1;
+		}
+		pr_unimpl(vcpu, "%s: MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR 0x%llx, nop\n",
+			__func__, data);
+		break;
 	case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
 	case MSR_IA32_UCODE_WRITE:
 		break;
@@ -757,6 +769,11 @@ int kvm_get_msr_common(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 msr, u64 *pdata)
 	case MSR_IA32_MC0_MISC+16:
 	case MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV:
 	case MSR_IA32_EBL_CR_POWERON:
+	case MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR:
+	case MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHFROMIP:
+	case MSR_IA32_LASTBRANCHTOIP:
+	case MSR_IA32_LASTINTFROMIP:
+	case MSR_IA32_LASTINTTOIP:
 		data = 0;
 		break;
 	case MSR_MTRRcap:
-- 
1.6.0.1

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