> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Graf [mailto:ag...@suse.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:14 PM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> Cc: hol...@penguinppc.org; kvm-...@vger.kernel.org; 
> kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc/booke: exit_nr fixup for 
> guest debug single step
> 
> Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> >  
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org 
> >> [mailto:kvm-ppc-ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Graf
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 5:03 PM
> >> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> >> Cc: hol...@penguinppc.org; kvm-...@vger.kernel.org; 
> >> kvm@vger.kernel.org; Liu Yu-B13201
> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] kvmppc/booke: exit_nr fixup for 
> >> guest debug single step
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 03.02.2010 um 08:53 schrieb Liu Yu <yu....@freescale.com>:
> >>
> >>     
> >>> As BOOKE doesn't have hardware support for virtualization,
> >>> hardware never know who's guest and host.
> >>>
> >>> When enable hardware single step in guest,
> >>> we cannot disabled it at the point we switch back to host.
> >>>       
> >> Why not? We directly arrive in our code. So we can just 
> >> disable it, no?
> >>
> >> Or does that break when you'd try to debug the guest 
> >> interrupt handlers?
> >>     
> >
> > That's the hardware limitition.
> > Assume received itlb miss interrupt, but it doesn't clear 
> MSR_DE in MSR,
> > so on the exit path single step still work and then debug 
> interrupt is
> > triggled.
> >   
> 
> MSRDE is set to 0 by critical class interrupts
> unless Category E.ED is supported, by Debug                   
> interrupts, and by Machine Check interrupts,                  
> and is left unchanged by all other interrupts.                
> 
> Great.
> 
> So when single stepping is enabled, you jump into the guest, 
> get an itlb
> miss, get out, still have DE set, get in KVM's own DE handler and can
> process things from there.
> 
> Could you check if the debug instruction was on PR=0? If so, you can
> just rfi and be good, right?
> 

Hr?
The moment we found this happen we've already saved the guest and loaded host 
on exit path
Rfi will make exit path again which means save guest again.

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