From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoffer Dall Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] KVM: arm/arm64: race fixes and vcpu requests Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 16:56:06 +0200 Message-ID: <20170604145606.GF9464@cbox> References: <20170604124401.24902-1-drjones@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org, marc.zyngier@arm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com To: Andrew Jones Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:36651 "EHLO mail-wm0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751159AbdFDO4Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2017 10:56:24 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f45.google.com with SMTP id 7so56272019wmo.1 for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2017 07:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170604124401.24902-1-drjones@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Drew, On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:43:50PM +0200, Andrew Jones wrote: > This series fixes some hard to produce races by introducing the use of > vcpu requests. I've tested the series on a Mustang and ThunderX and > compile-tested the ARM bits. > > Patch 3/11 adds documentation, as, at least for me, understanding vcpu > request interplay with vcpu kicks and vcpu mode and the memory barriers > that interplay implies, is exhausting. I have applied these to kvmarm/queue. Will give them a bit of testing over the next week (and hope others do as well), and will then otherwise apply them to next. Thanks for all the hard work! -Christoffer