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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] x86/kvm: Enable MCE injection in the guest v2
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On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 07:38:06PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Hi all,
>
> here's v2, dropping patch 3 and incorporating hopefully all of Radim's
> feedback.
>
> Thx.
>
> v1 cover letter:
>
> there's this mce-inject.ko module in the kernel which allows for
> injecting real MCEs and thus test the MCE handling code.
>
> It is doubly useful to be able to inject same MCEs in a guest so that
> testing of the MCE handling code can happen even easier/faster. In order
> to be able to do that on an AMD guest, we need to emulate some bits
> and pieces like the HWCR[McStatusWrEn] bit which allows writes to the
> MCi_STATUS registers without a #GP.
>
> The below does that and with it I'm able to properly inject MCEs in said
> guest.
>
> Borislav Petkov (2):
> kvm/x86: Move MSR_K7_HWCR to svm.c
> x86/kvm: Implement MSR_HWCR support
>
> arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.17.0.582.gccdcbd54c
>

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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