Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: sync cpu state on internal error before dump

[Gleb Natapov]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:26:00PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> When a KVM internal error occurs QEMU dumps the CPU state, however it
> doesn't synchronise the state from KVM first so the dumped state is out
> of date. Add the synchronisation calls before the dump in both locations
> (which is used depends on whether the arch says to stop or not).
> 
x86_cpu_dump_state() calls cpu_synchronize_state() already.

> Note that x86 does a sync in its kvm_arch_stop_on_emulation_error()
> function so at least for emulation errors is unaffected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <address@hidden>
> Cc: Gleb Natapov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> ---
>  kvm-all.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c
> index b788fcd..803141a 100644
> --- a/kvm-all.c
> +++ b/kvm-all.c
> @@ -1546,6 +1546,7 @@ static int kvm_handle_internal_error(CPUState *cpu, 
> struct kvm_run *run)
>      if (run->internal.suberror == KVM_INTERNAL_ERROR_EMULATION) {
>          fprintf(stderr, "emulation failure\n");
>          if (!kvm_arch_stop_on_emulation_error(cpu)) {
> +            kvm_cpu_synchronize_state(cpu);
>              cpu_dump_state(cpu, stderr, fprintf, CPU_DUMP_CODE);
>              return EXCP_INTERRUPT;
>          }
> @@ -1701,6 +1702,7 @@ int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *cpu)
>      } while (ret == 0);
>  
>      if (ret < 0) {
> +        kvm_cpu_synchronize_state(cpu);
>          cpu_dump_state(cpu, stderr, fprintf, CPU_DUMP_CODE);
>          vm_stop(RUN_STATE_INTERNAL_ERROR);
>      }
> -- 
> 1.8.1.2
> 

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                        Gleb.