At 13:50 +0000 on 30 Nov (1480513830), Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The emulator needs to gain an understanding of interrupts and exceptions
> generated by its actions.
>
> Move hvm_emulate_ctxt.{exn_pending,trap} into struct x86_emulate_ctxt so they
> are visible to the emulator. This removes the need for the
> inject_{hw_exception,sw_interrupt}() hooks, which are dropped and replaced
> with x86_emul_{hw_exception,software_event,reset_event}() instead.
>
> For exceptions raised by x86_emulate() itself (rather than its callbacks), the
> shadow pagetable and PV uses of x86_emulate() previously failed with
> X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE due to the lack of inject_*() hooks.
>
> This behaviour has changed, and such cases will now return X86EMUL_EXCEPTION
> with event_pending set. Until the callers of x86_emulate() have been updated
> to inject events back into the guest, divert the event_pending case back into
> the X86EMUL_UNHANDLEABLE path to maintain the same guest-visible behaviour.
>
> No overall functional change.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
> Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrov...@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.t...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org>
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