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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Don't call svm_complete_interrupts for nested guests
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:28:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090923082819.GV23157@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D305191D-FE31-4CD6-85F5-0CB13D856DA8@suse.de>

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:05:57AM -0700, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> Am 22.09.2009 um 18:26 schrieb Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>:
> 
> >On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:00:29PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>SVM has some cleanup code, that tries to reinject interrupts and
> >>exceptions
> >>when the guest didn't manage to deal with them yet. It basically
> >>transfers
> >>them to KVM internal state.
> >>
> >>Unfortunately, the internal state is reserved for the L1 guest
> >>state, so we
> >>shouldn't try to go through that logic when running a nested guest.
> >>
> >>When doing something the host KVM can handle, let's just
> >>reinject the event
> >>into the L2 guest, because we didn't touch its state anyways.
> >
> >I don't really understandt what problem this patch addresses.
> >There are
> >situations where we have events to reinject into the l2 guest
> >directly.
> >But the generic reinjection code works fine for it.
> >The only problematic thing with it is that it implicitly relies on
> >exit_int_info not to be changed in the exit cycle (which would be
> >worth
> >a comment).
> 
> It simply tries to be too clever. Reevaluating exceptions won't work
> for example.
> 
Can you elaborate? What do you mean by "too clever" and why reevaluating
exceptions won't work?

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-18 13:00 [PATCH 0/5] Nested SVM Interrupt Fixes Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:00 ` [PATCH 1/5] Implement #NMI exiting for nested SVM Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:00   ` [PATCH 2/5] Don't call svm_complete_interrupts for nested guests Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:00     ` [PATCH 3/5] Don't #VMEXIT(INTR) if we still have event_inj waiting Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:00       ` [PATCH 4/5] Don't bail when injecting an event in nested SVM Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:00         ` [PATCH 5/5] Notify nested hypervisor of lost event injections Alexander Graf
2009-09-23  1:22           ` Joerg Roedel
2009-09-27 14:18           ` Joerg Roedel
2009-09-23  1:39       ` [PATCH 3/5] Don't #VMEXIT(INTR) if we still have event_inj waiting Joerg Roedel
2009-09-23  8:09         ` Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 13:39     ` [PATCH 2/5] Don't call svm_complete_interrupts for nested guests Jan Kiszka
2009-09-23  1:26     ` Joerg Roedel
2009-09-23  8:04       ` Alexander Graf
2009-09-23  8:05       ` Alexander Graf
2009-09-23  8:28         ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2009-09-18 13:33   ` [PATCH 1/5] Implement #NMI exiting for nested SVM Jan Kiszka
2009-09-18 15:44     ` Alexander Graf
2009-09-18 16:01       ` Jan Kiszka
2009-09-23  1:06   ` Joerg Roedel

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