[RFC PATCH 14/16] KVM: PPC: booke: category E.HV (GS-mode) support

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 05:44:26PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 04:11 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > This is what book3s does:
> > 
> >                 case EMULATE_FAIL:
> >                         printk(KERN_CRIT "%s: emulation at %lx failed
> > (%08x)\n",
> >                                __func__, kvmppc_get_pc(vcpu),
> > kvmppc_get_last_inst(vcpu));
> >                         kvmppc_core_queue_program(vcpu, flags);
> >                         r = RESUME_GUEST;
> > 
> > which also doesn't throttle the printk, but I think injecting a
> > program fault into the guest is the most sensible thing to do if we
> > don't know what the instruction is supposed to do. Best case we get an
> > oops inside the guest telling us what broke :).
> 
> You can also fallback to a slow path that reads the guest TLB,
> translates then reads the instruction. Of course you have to be careful
> as such a manual translate + read + execute needs to be somewhat
> synchronized with a possible TLB invalidation :-)

That's how we should deal with a failure to read the instruction due to
it being execute-only (once we add the ability to fix up a fault on a
booke KVM instruction fetch) -- but the above code is dealing with the
case where we read the instruction successfully, but don't have an
emulation handler for it.

-Scott