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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Feng(Eric) Liu" <eric.e.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 4/4] KVM-trace port to tracepoints
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:52:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <487F78DB.2070303@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080717160003.359557938@polymtl.ca>

Hi Mathieu,

It's difficult to review your patches because they aren't inlined.

At any rate, this patches are unusable with SVM.  They try to execute VT 
instructions unconditionally.  For instance, you changed:
>
> -    KVMTRACE_1D(INTR, vcpu, vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO), handler);
> +    trace_kvm_intr(vcpu);

Which lived in VT-specific code (vmx.c)

To:

> +static void probe_kvm_intr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +    kvm_add_trace(KVM_TRC_INTR, vcpu, 1,
> +        (u32 []){ vmcs_read32(VM_EXIT_INTR_INFO) });
> +}
> +

Which lives in common code (kvm_trace.c).  But vmcs_read32() is 
VT-specific and should not be used in common code so this motion is 
wrong.  Why not just pass more arguments to probe_kvm_intr()?  Then your 
first two patches can be dropped completely.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-17 15:57 [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace to tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 1/4] kvm move VMCS Encodings to system headers Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 2/4] kvm move VMCS read " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 3/4] KVM move register read-write " Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 15:57 ` [patch 4/4] KVM-trace port to tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 16:49   ` Jan Kiszka
2008-07-17 17:28     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-22 16:04       ` Jan Kiszka
2008-07-22 18:46         ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23  7:49           ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23  8:08             ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23  8:55               ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23  9:32                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23  9:53                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 13:15                     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-23 10:03                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23 10:08                   ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-23 10:13                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-23 13:20               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-17 16:52   ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-07-17 17:04     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-22 18:42 ` [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace " Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 19:16   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-22 19:31     ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-22 19:54       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-22 22:12       ` [patch 0/4] Port KVM-trace to tracepoints -> LTTng ? Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-27 10:11         ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-28  0:54           ` [RFC] LTTng merge plan Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-29 16:18             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-29 17:01               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found]                 ` <20080729211543.GB17097@redhat.com>
2008-07-29 22:41                   ` module-placed markers/tracepoints Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-29 23:01                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-29 23:19                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30  1:40                     ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-30  2:27                       ` [PATCH] Module : call synchronize_sched() between module exit() and free Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30  3:04                         ` Rusty Russell
2008-07-30  4:05                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-30 11:40                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-30 14:09                           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-07-31  0:54                             ` Rusty Russell

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