During my testing, I found that guest debugging with 'DR6.BD' does not work in instruction emulation, as the current code only considers the guest's DR7. Upon reviewing the code, I also observed that the checks for the userspace guest debugging feature and the guest's own debugging feature are repeated in different places during instruction emulation, but the overall logic is the same. If guest debugging is enabled, it needs to exit to userspace; otherwise, a #DB exception needs to be injected into the guest. Therefore, as suggested by Jiangshan Lai, some cleanup has been done for #DB handling in instruction emulation in this patchset. A new function named 'kvm_inject_emulated_db()' is introduced to consolidate all the checking logic. Moreover, I hope we can make the #DB interception path use the same function as well.
Additionally, when I looked into the single-step #DB handling in instruction emulation, I noticed that the interrupt shadow is toggled, but it is not considered in the single-step #DB injection. This oversight causes VM entry to fail on VMX (due to pending debug exceptions checking) or breaks the 'MOV SS' suppressed #DB. For the latter, I have kept the behavior for now in my patchset, as I need some suggestions.
Hou Wenlong (7): KVM: x86: Set guest DR6 by kvm_queue_exception_p() in instruction emulation KVM: x86: Check guest debug in DR access instruction emulation KVM: x86: Only check effective code breakpoint in emulation KVM: x86: Consolidate KVM_GUESTDBG_SINGLESTEP check into the kvm_inject_emulated_db() KVM: VMX: Set 'BS' bit in pending debug exceptions during instruction emulation KVM: selftests: Verify guest debug DR7.GD checking during instruction emulation KVM: selftests: Verify 'BS' bit checking in pending debug exception during VM entry
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm-x86-ops.h | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 14 +-- arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h | 7 +- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c | 9 ++ arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 14 ++- arch/x86/kvm/vmx/x86_ops.h | 1 + arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 109 +++++++++++------- arch/x86/kvm/x86.h | 7 ++ .../selftests/kvm/include/x86/processor.h | 3 +- tools/testing/selftests/kvm/x86/debug_regs.c | 64 +++++++++- 11 files changed, 167 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)
base-commit: ecbcc2461839e848970468b44db32282e5059925 -- 2.31.1