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    KVM: X86: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction" · 6c86eedc
    Wanpeng Li authored
    There is no easy way to force KVM to run an instruction through the emulator
    (by design as that will expose the x86 emulator as a significant attack-surface).
    However, we do wish to expose the x86 emulator in case we are testing it
    (e.g. via kvm-unit-tests). Therefore, this patch adds a "force emulation prefix"
    that is designed to raise #UD which KVM will trap and it's #UD exit-handler will
    match "force emulation prefix" to run instruction after prefix by the x86 emulator.
    To not expose the x86 emulator by default, we add a module parameter that should
    be off by default.
    
    A simple testcase here:
    
        #include <stdio.h>
        #include <string.h>
    
        #define HYPERVISOR_INFO 0x40000000
    
        #define CPUID(idx, eax, ebx, ecx, edx) \
            asm volatile (\
            "ud2a; .ascii \"kvm\"; cpuid" \
            :"=b" (*ebx), "=a" (*eax), "=c" (*ecx), "=d" (*edx) \
                :"0"(idx) );
    
        void main()
        {
            unsigned int eax, ebx, ecx, edx;
            char string[13];
    
            CPUID(HYPERVISOR_INFO, &eax, &ebx, &ecx, &edx);
            *(unsigned int *)(string + 0) = ebx;
            *(unsigned int *)(string + 4) = ecx;
            *(unsigned int *)(string + 8) = edx;
    
            string[12] = 0;
            if (strncmp(string, "KVMKVMKVM\0\0\0", 12) == 0)
                printf("kvm guest\n");
            else
                printf("bare hardware\n");
        }
    Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarRadim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarLiran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
    Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
    Cc: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarWanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
    [Correctly handle usermode exits. - Paolo]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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