Re: [PATCH 1/6] qemu,kvm: Enable NMI support for user space irqchip

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

Am 09.12.2010 07:58, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> 
> Make use of the new KVM_NMI IOCTL to send NMIs into the KVM guest if the
> user space APIC emulation or some other source raised them.

In that light, the subject is not absolutely correct.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
> index 7dfc357..c4ebe28 100644
> --- a/target-i386/kvm.c
> +++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
> @@ -1417,6 +1417,14 @@ int kvm_arch_get_registers(CPUState *env)
>  
>  int kvm_arch_pre_run(CPUState *env, struct kvm_run *run)
>  {
> +#ifdef KVM_CAP_USER_NMI
> +    if (env->interrupt_request & CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI) {
> +        env->interrupt_request &= ~CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI;
> +        DPRINTF("injected NMI\n");
> +        kvm_vcpu_ioctl(env, KVM_NMI);
> +    }
> +#endif
> +
>      /* Try to inject an interrupt if the guest can accept it */
>      if (run->ready_for_interrupt_injection &&
>          (env->interrupt_request & CPU_INTERRUPT_HARD) &&

Actually, we already depend on KVM_CAP_DESTROY_MEMORY_REGION_WORKS which
was introduced with 2.6.29 as well. I would suggest to simply extend the
static configure check and avoid new #ifdefs in the code.

Thanks for pushing this! Was obviously so trivial that it was forgotten...

Jan

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