[PATCH] KVM: Improve reporting of vmwrite errors
authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 00:36:56 +0000 (16:36 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org>
Sat, 6 Jan 2007 07:55:27 +0000 (23:55 -0800)
This will allow us to see the root cause when a vmwrite error happens.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/kvm/vmx.c

index ed39567..779d8fc 100644 (file)
@@ -152,15 +152,21 @@ static u64 vmcs_read64(unsigned long field)
 #endif
 }
 
+static noinline void vmwrite_error(unsigned long field, unsigned long value)
+{
+       printk(KERN_ERR "vmwrite error: reg %lx value %lx (err %d)\n",
+              field, value, vmcs_read32(VM_INSTRUCTION_ERROR));
+       dump_stack();
+}
+
 static void vmcs_writel(unsigned long field, unsigned long value)
 {
        u8 error;
 
        asm volatile (ASM_VMX_VMWRITE_RAX_RDX "; setna %0"
                       : "=q"(error) : "a"(value), "d"(field) : "cc" );
-       if (error)
-               printk(KERN_ERR "vmwrite error: reg %lx value %lx (err %d)\n",
-                      field, value, vmcs_read32(VM_INSTRUCTION_ERROR));
+       if (unlikely(error))
+               vmwrite_error(field, value);
 }
 
 static void vmcs_write16(unsigned long field, u16 value)