From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>,
"Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Rework event injection and recovery
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:57:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130220155750.GQ3600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5124F10B.4050800@siemens.com>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 04:51:39PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2013-02-20 16:30, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 03:53:53PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >> On 2013-02-20 14:01, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>> This aligns VMX more with SVM regarding event injection and recovery for
> >>> nested guests. The changes allow to inject interrupts directly from L0
> >>> to L2.
> >>>
> >>> One difference to SVM is that we always transfer the pending event
> >>> injection into the architectural state of the VCPU and then drop it from
> >>> there if it turns out that we left L2 to enter L1.
> >>>
> >>> VMX and SVM are now identical in how they recover event injections from
> >>> unperformed vmlaunch/vmresume: We detect that VM_ENTRY_INTR_INFO_FIELD
> >>> still contains a valid event and, if yes, transfer the content into L1's
> >>> idt_vectoring_info_field.
> >>>
> >>> To avoid that we incorrectly leak an event into the architectural VCPU
> >>> state that L1 wants to inject, we skip cancellation on nested run.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> Survived moderate testing here and (currently) makes sense to me, but
> >>> please review very carefully. I wouldn't be surprised if I'm still
> >>> missing some subtle corner case.
> >>
> >> Forgot to point this out again: It still takes "KVM: nVMX: Fix injection
> >> of PENDING_INTERRUPT and NMI_WINDOW exits to L1" to make L0->L2
> >> injection work. So this patch logically depends on it.
> >>
> > But this patch has hunks from that patch.
>
> Not mechanically.
>
What do you mean?
> If you prefer me merging them together, let me know.
>
For review not necessary, for applying preferably.
--
Gleb.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-20 15:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-20 13:01 [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Rework event injection and recovery Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 14:14 ` Nadav Har'El
2013-02-20 14:37 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 17:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-20 17:24 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 17:50 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 9:22 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 9:43 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 10:06 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 10:18 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 10:28 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 10:33 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 13:13 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 13:22 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-21 13:37 ` Nadav Har'El
2013-02-21 13:45 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-21 13:28 ` Nadav Har'El
2013-02-20 14:53 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 15:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-20 15:51 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 15:57 ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2013-02-20 16:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 16:46 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-02-20 16:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-02-20 16:51 ` Gleb Natapov
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