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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Denis Lunev" <den@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm/x86: skip async_pf when in guest mode
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 03:51:24 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1431709160.121394.1480063884372.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161125084251.GC28457@rkaganb.sw.ru>


> What's the correct way to kick L2 to L1 from the host?  I failed to find
> one from a brief skimming through the code.  We need a sensible exit
> reason delivered to L1 (probably "external interrupt" will do) but I
> don't see a method to do so without actually injecting an interrupt into
> L1 which is not unlikely to confuse it.  Any suggestion?

Perhaps check for async page faults in nested_vmx_check_exception and
nested_svm_intercept, before testing the exception bitmap?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-25  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-24 16:30 [PATCH] kvm/x86: skip async_pf when in guest mode Roman Kagan
2016-11-24 20:49 ` Radim Krčmář
2016-11-25  7:15   ` Roman Kagan
2016-11-25  8:42     ` Roman Kagan
2016-11-25  8:51       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-11-25 11:17         ` Roman Kagan

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