x86/HVM: restrict permitted instructions during special purpose emulation
Most invocations of the instruction emulator are for VM exits where the
set of legitimate instructions (i.e. ones capable of causing the
respective exit) is rather small. Restrict the permitted sets via a new
callback, at once eliminating the abuse of handle_mmio() for non-MMIO
operations.
A seemingly unrelated comment adjustment is being done here to keep
x86_emulate() in sync with x86_insn_is_mem_write() (in the context of
which this was found to be wrong).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
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