Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add KVM support to QEMU

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Just a quick skim...
>
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>   
>> +int kvm_cpu_exec(CPUState *env)
>> +{
>> +    struct kvm_run *run = env->kvm_run;
>> +    int ret;
>> +
>> +    dprintf("kvm_cpu_exec()\n");
>> +
>> +    do {
>> +        kvm_arch_pre_run(env, run);
>> +
>> +        if ((env->interrupt_request & CPU_INTERRUPT_EXIT)) {
>> +            dprintf("interrupt exit requested\n");
>> +            ret = 0;
>> +            break;
>> +        }
>> +
>> +        dprintf("setting tpr\n");
>> +        run->cr8 = cpu_get_apic_tpr(env);
>>     
>
> This belongs in the arch_pre_run hook above.
>   

Good catch, I've updated the patch.

> How did you decide which exit handlers should go into
> architecture-specific code? Looking at just the KVM architecture set:
>   

Based on whether the implementation required target-specific code.

> IO: x86 and ia64, not PowerPC or s390
>   

cpu_{in,out}[bwl] are defined in vl.c and are available for all 
architectures.  They are no-ops on most architectures because they are 
never used.

> MMIO: everybody except s390
>   

cpu_physical_memory_rw() is defined by everyone.

> DCRs: PowerPC only
>   

This will have to be an architecture specific handler.

> IRQ window: not sure
>   

It's a no-op implementation.  I would think that this would be needed on 
PPC.  If you want to inject an interrupt, but the guest is unable to 
handle an interrupt, you need to exit to userspace when the guest 
re-enables interrupts.  Otherwise, you may never return to userspace for 
the interrupt to be injected.

How do you handle that now?  Does PPC have something that makes this 
unnecessary?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -Hollis
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