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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, joro@8bytes.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v5
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:08:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490A0627.7020206@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5A4061D1-03CF-42F8-946D-ABF56454FC84@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 30.10.2008, at 19:10, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> GIF somehow needs exposure to userspace too, right?  Otherwise, when 
>>> using -no-kernel-apic, userspace may try to inject an interrupt when 
>>> the guest cannot handle it, right?
>>
>> Hmm, right, it needs to close the interrupt window.
>
> Yes, it's broken with -no-kernel-apic, since the userspace doesn't 
> know the window is closed. Any good suggestions here? Joerg and me 
> decided to just ignore the non-kernel-apic case, but if it's important 
> we might want to sync the hflags with userspace, so we can export the 
> GIF.

Maybe abusing kvm_run->if_flag?  Current, userspace treats if_flag as a 
boolean.  If you stored GIF and eflags.IF in there, I believe old 
userspaces would just work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex
>


  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-30 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-20 17:04 [PATCH 0/9] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04 ` [PATCH 1/9] Clean up VINTR setting v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04   ` [PATCH 2/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04     ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04       ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement hsave v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04         ` [PATCH 5/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04           ` [PATCH 6/9] Add VMRUN handler v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04             ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04               ` [PATCH 8/9] allow read access to MSR_VM_VR Alexander Graf
2008-10-20 17:04                 ` [PATCH 9/9] Allow setting the SVME bit v5 Alexander Graf
2008-10-29 13:58                   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-29 14:03                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-29 14:17                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-29 14:07                     ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 19:16                   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 19:24                     ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 20:46                       ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:44                     ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:52                       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-02  9:11                         ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-03  7:37                           ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-03 13:54                             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 19:15                 ` [PATCH 8/9] allow read access to MSR_VM_VR Anthony Liguori
2008-10-31 10:57                   ` Joerg Roedel
2008-10-28 18:38             ` Add VMRUN handler v5 Mike Day
2008-10-29  5:35               ` Alexander Graf
2008-11-18 14:14             ` [PATCH 6/9] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-10-30 18:06           ` [PATCH 5/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers v5 Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:44             ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:14               ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 21:02                 ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 21:38                   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:04         ` [PATCH 4/9] Implement hsave v5 Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:43           ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:05             ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 19:29             ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 20:38               ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 20:44                 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 20:47                   ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 22:05                     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-02  9:24                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 19:09       ` Implement GIF, clgi and stgi v5 Mike Day
2008-10-27 19:29         ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-27 19:40           ` Mike Day
2008-10-30 18:02       ` [PATCH 3/9] " Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:10         ` Avi Kivity
2008-10-30 18:35           ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:08             ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-10-30 19:11           ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-29 13:48     ` [PATCH 2/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM v5 Joerg Roedel
2008-10-30 17:56     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-30 18:41       ` Alexander Graf
2008-10-30 19:10         ` Anthony Liguori

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