On 13.09.2023 01:21, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> We long ago fixed the emulator to not inject exceptions behind our back.
> Therefore, assert that that a PV event (including interrupts, because that
> would be buggy too) isn't pending, rather than skipping the #DB injection if
> one is.
> 
> On the other hand, the io_emul() stubs which use X86EMUL_DONE rather than
> X86EMUL_OKAY may have pending breakpoints to inject after the IO access is
> complete, not to mention a pending singlestep.

If you look at the uses of X86EMUL_DONE you'll see that this error code is
not intended to ever come back from the emulator. It's solely used to
communicate between hooks and the core emulator. Therefore I think this
part of the description and the added case label are wrong here. With them
dropped again ...

> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>

Jan


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