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    arm64: KVM: Consistently advance singlestep when emulating instructions · bd7d95ca
    Mark Rutland authored
    
    
    When we emulate a guest instruction, we don't advance the hardware
    singlestep state machine, and thus the guest will receive a software
    step exception after a next instruction which is not emulated by the
    host.
    
    We bodge around this in an ad-hoc fashion. Sometimes we explicitly check
    whether userspace requested a single step, and fake a debug exception
    from within the kernel. Other times, we advance the HW singlestep state
    rely on the HW to generate the exception for us. Thus, the observed step
    behaviour differs for host and guest.
    
    Let's make this simpler and consistent by always advancing the HW
    singlestep state machine when we skip an instruction. Thus we can rely
    on the hardware to generate the singlestep exception for us, and never
    need to explicitly check for an active-pending step, nor do we need to
    fake a debug exception from the guest.
    
    Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarChristoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
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