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From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 16:55:35 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/21] KVM: x86: Treat #DBs from the emulator as
 fault-like (code and DR7.GD=1)
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>,
        Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 1:47 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
>
> Add a dedicated "exception type" for #DBs, as #DBs can be fault-like or
> trap-like depending the sub-type of #DB, and effectively defer the
> decision of what to do with the #DB to the caller.
>
> For the emulator's two calls to exception_type(), treat the #DB as
> fault-like, as the emulator handles only code breakpoint and general
> detect #DBs, both of which are fault-like.

Does this mean that data and I/O breakpoint traps are just dropped?
Are there KVM errata for those misbehaviors?
What about single-stepping? Is that handled outwith the emulator?