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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, avi@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
	joerg.roedel@amd.com, agraf@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SVM: do not generate "external interrupt exit" if other exit is pending
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:50:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100919175027.GA12883@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100919172941.GF15338@8bytes.org>

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 07:29:41PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 06:41:27PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > Nested SVM checks for external interrupt after injecting nested exception.
> > In case there is external interrupt pending the code generates "external
> > interrupt exit" and overwrites previous exit info. If previously injected
> > exception already generated exit it will be lost.
> 
> Right. Have you seen specific mismehavior due to this problem? I am just
> curious how you found this :-)
Yes. Trying to make async page fault work with nested svm :) It was hard
to fix with reproducible test case. I am not dreaming to fix it just by
code review.

> And another question, can you put the reason for this "if(...) return"
> into an comment before the statement? The whole svm-emulation thing is
> complicated enough so that we should document it well in the code :-)
> 
Complicated is understatement. Will add a comment.

> 	Joerg
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > index 43f5558..1a1f86b 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > @@ -1707,6 +1707,9 @@ static inline bool nested_svm_intr(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> >  	if (!(svm->vcpu.arch.hflags & HF_HIF_MASK))
> >  		return false;
> >  
> > +	if (svm->nested.exit_required)
> > +		return false;
> > +
> >  	svm->vmcb->control.exit_code   = SVM_EXIT_INTR;
> >  	svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_1 = 0;
> >  	svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_2 = 0;
> > --
> > 			Gleb.

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-19 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-19 16:41 [PATCH] SVM: do not generate "external interrupt exit" if other exit is pending Gleb Natapov
2010-09-19 17:29 ` Joerg Roedel
2010-09-19 17:50   ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2010-09-19 18:19     ` Joerg Roedel
2010-09-20  7:40       ` Gleb Natapov

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