Re: [PATCH 11/11] KVM: SVM: Don't call instruction emulator for invdand wbinvd

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Feb 21 2010 - 07:00:41 EST


On 02/21/2010 01:37 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:53:14AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 02/19/2010 05:23 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
There is an intercept for WBINVD and INVD in SVM so we don't
need the instruction emulator. The primary reason is that
the current instruction emulator fails to emulate these
instructions and the rip is not advanced.

The bios (at least bochs bios) does have wbinvd, so this ought to work.
Weird. For some reason the Windows 7 XP emulation was executing wbinvd
which caused an nested intercept for the host level and the rip was not
advanced. So the nested guest did not advance and just produces wbinvd
intercepts all the time.

Has the guest enabled wbinvd interception? Perhaps not, so kvm has to emulate wbinvd in the nested guest context, which is likely the only case that we're called to do this. So the problem might be in emulating within the nested guest.

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