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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, gleb@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Disable GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI flag before injecting NMI to guest on VMX
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:01:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C778CFD.6030503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C778C9A.1030104@redhat.com>

On 08/27/10 11:59, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 08/27/2010 12:56 PM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>
>>> Well, in light of Jan's comment re sti; hlt being clobbered by this, we
>>> should think about requesting an interrupt window instead...
>>>
>> Ok, I heading onto thin ice here :)
>>
>> How does one do that, just a call to
>>      kvm_x86_ops->enable_nmi_window(vcpu);
>> or is something else needed, like setting vcpu->arch.nmi_pending ?
> 
> ->enable_irq_window()
> 
> And need to update ->nmi_allowed() to disallow nmi if blocked-by-sti.
> 
> I've asked the vendor about this, so let's wait for their reply first.
> 

Ok, let me know when you hear back.

Cheers,
Jes


      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-27 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-26 20:06 [PATCH 0/1] Disable GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI flag before injecting NMI to VMX guest Jes.Sorensen
2010-08-26 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/1] Disable GUEST_INTR_STATE_STI flag before injecting NMI to guest on VMX Jes.Sorensen
2010-08-27  8:27   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27  8:31     ` Jes Sorensen
2010-08-27  8:39       ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27  9:46         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 11:06           ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27 13:58             ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 14:13               ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27 15:50                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 16:43                   ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-29  8:09                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27  9:44     ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 11:06       ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27 13:54         ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 14:12           ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27 11:16       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-27 11:23         ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27 11:25           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-27 11:04     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-27 11:09       ` Jan Kiszka
2010-08-27  9:21   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27  9:41     ` Jes Sorensen
2010-08-27  9:47       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27  9:56         ` Jes Sorensen
2010-08-27  9:59           ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-27 10:01             ` Jes Sorensen [this message]

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