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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390x/tcg: specification exception for unknown
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Thomas Huth |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390x/tcg: specification exception for unknown diag |
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Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:26:15 +0200 |
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On 18.08.2017 13:00, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> While the PoP is silent on the issue, z/VM documentation states
> that unknown diagnose codes trigger a specification exception.
> We already do that when running with kvm, so change tcg to do so
> as well.
I just tried on a z/VM guest what happens if I call diag with an
unsupported code, and the Linux kernel then crashes with a specification
exception, indeed. So this sounds like the right thing to do!
> This is on top of "s390x: wire up diag288 in tcg".
May I suggest to order the patches the other way round? ... that's less
code churn that way.
Thomas