x86/vm_event: allow overwriting Xen's i-cache used for emulation
When emulating instructions Xen's emulator maintains a small i-cache fetched
from the guest memory. This patch extends the vm_event interface to allow
overwriting this i-cache via a buffer returned in the vm_event response.
When responding to a SOFTWARE_BREAKPOINT event (INT3) the monitor subscriber
normally has to remove the INT3 from memory - singlestep - place back INT3
to allow the guest to continue execution. This routine however is susceptible
to a race-condition on multi-vCPU guests. By allowing the subscriber to return
the i-cache to be used for emulation it can side-step the problem by returning
a clean buffer without the INT3 present.
As part of this patch we rename hvm_mem_access_emulate_one to
hvm_emulate_one_vm_event to better reflect that it is used in various vm_event
scenarios now, not just in response to mem_access events.
Signed-off-by: Tamas K Lengyel <tamas.lengyel@zentific.com>
Acked-by: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>