[Xen-devel] X86_emulate to be moved into qemu...

["Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx>]

> Hmmm... wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have a bespoke, 
> buggy & incomplete emulator for hvm mmio. ;-)

In the process of solving this one, I've got to (another) of the
blocking points... 

At the moment, we translate the virtual address from the guest in the
page-fault-handler to guest physical address via the gva_to_gpa()
function in svm.c/vmx.c: xxx_do_page_fault(). 

When using x86_emulate.c inside qemu, we'd need to feed in the virtual
address, but we also need to translate to (guest-)physical address. Any
hints or tricks for this, or do I need to read the page-table and get
the info that way [and CAN I even do that]? [And I'm sorry if this shows
my complete and utter ignorance of how Xen and QEMU operates together,
but I'm afraid that I'm still learning these things]. 

Another interesting question is what we do with the dozen or so "new"
include-files that are needed to make x86_emulate.c compile inside the
tools/ioemu directory. At the moment, I've just created directories
inside tools/libxc and linked the necessary header files into those
directories... Is that the proper solution?

--
Mats


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