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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, quintela@redhat.com,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: KVM: add doc note about PIO/MMIO completion API
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:10:26 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100213181025.GA4254@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B72E16B.7080704@redhat.com>


How's that? Feel free to upgrade it.

------


Document that partially emulated instructions leave the guest state
unconsistent, and that the kernel must complete operations before
checking for pending signals.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
index c6416a3..ec0e72b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kvm/api.txt
@@ -820,6 +820,11 @@ executed a memory-mapped I/O instruction which could not be satisfied
 by kvm.  The 'data' member contains the written data if 'is_write' is
 true, and should be filled by application code otherwise.
 
+NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO and KVM_EXIT_MMIO, the corresponding operations
+are complete (and guest state is consistent) only after userspace has
+re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The kernel side must first finish
+uncomplete operations and then check for pending signals.
+
 		/* KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL */
 		struct {
 			__u64 nr;

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-02-13 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28 19:03 [patch 0/3] save/restore in-progress PIO Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-28 19:03 ` [patch 1/3] KVM: x86: add ioctls to get/set PIO state Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-04 19:16   ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-04 21:36     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-04 21:46       ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-04 22:12         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-04 22:45           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-08 22:41         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-09  6:38           ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-09 18:23             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-09 20:58             ` qemu-kvm: do not allow vcpu stop with in progress PIO Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-10  7:02               ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-10 16:25                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-02-10 16:40                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-10 16:52                     ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-10 17:01                       ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-10 17:03                         ` Alexander Graf
2010-02-10 17:08                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-10 17:07                         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-02-10 17:08                           ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-13 18:10                     ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2010-02-14  8:17                       ` KVM: add doc note about PIO/MMIO completion API Avi Kivity
2010-02-17  9:22                         ` Avi Kivity
2010-02-18 13:24               ` qemu-kvm: do not allow vcpu stop with in progress PIO Avi Kivity
2010-01-28 19:03 ` [patch 2/3] uqmaster: save/restore pio state Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-28 19:03 ` [patch 3/3] uqmaster: save/restore PIO page Marcelo Tosatti
2010-01-28 20:24   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-01-28 21:10     ` Marcelo Tosatti

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