kvm: Handle inst events at the current instruction count
Review Request #2838 - Created May 18, 2015 and submitted - Latest diff uploaded
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| Andreas Sandberg | |
| gem5 | |
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Changeset 10850:2dca1e24a806 --------------------------- kvm: Handle inst events at the current instruction count There are cases (particularly when attaching GDB) when instruction events are scheduled at the current instruction tick. This used to trigger an assertion error in kvm. This changeset adds a check for this condition and forces KVM to do a quick entry that completes any pending IO operations, but does not execute any new instructions, before servicing the event. We could check if we need to enter KVM at all, but forcing a quick entry is makes the code slightly cleaner and does not hurt correctness (performance is hardly an issue in these cases).
Extensively tested with kvm and gdb on aarch64. Doesn't fixes the assertion error mentioned in the description.
