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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>
Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, ian.campbell@citrix.com,
	stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, andrew.cooper3@citrix.com,
	eddie.dong@intel.com, tim@xen.org, jun.nakajima@intel.com,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC V9 4/5] xen, libxc: Request page fault injection via libxc
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 10:27:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5400638A020000780002EFD6@mail.emea.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54002F43.4070802@bitdefender.com>

>>> On 29.08.14 at 09:44, <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com> wrote:
> I do understand the preference for a VCPU-based mechanism from a
> concurrency point of view, but that would simply potentially fail for
> us, hence defeating the purpose of the patch. I'm also not sure how that
> would be useful in the general case either, since the same problem that
> applies to us would seem to apply to the general case as well.

Yeah, the whole thing probably needs a bit more thinking so that the
interface doesn't end up being a BitDefender-special. Indeed together
with the address space qualification, the interface might not be very
useful when made vCPU-bound. And taking it a little further into the
"generic" direction, allowing this to only inject #PF doesn't make a
very nice interface either. Plus we already have HVMOP_inject_trap,
i.e. your first line of thinking (and eventual explaining as the
motivation for a patch) should be why that can't be used.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-29  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-28 11:47 [PATCH RFC V9 1/5] xen: Emulate with no writes Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 11:47 ` [PATCH RFC V9 2/5] xen: Optimize introspection access to guest state Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 11:48 ` [PATCH RFC V9 3/5] xen, libxc: Force-enable relevant MSR events Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 11:48 ` [PATCH RFC V9 4/5] xen, libxc: Request page fault injection via libxc Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 12:03   ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-28 12:08     ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 12:11       ` Jan Beulich
2014-08-28 12:23         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 12:37         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-29  7:44         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-29  9:27           ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2014-09-01  7:36             ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-01  9:08               ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-01 11:54                 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-01 12:05                   ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-02  9:18                     ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-02  9:33                       ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-02  9:44                         ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-02 10:08                           ` Jan Beulich
2014-09-02 13:24                       ` Tim Deegan
2014-09-09 16:57                         ` George Dunlap
2014-09-09 17:39                           ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-09 18:38                             ` Tamas K Lengyel
2014-09-10  8:09                               ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-10  8:48                                 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-09-10  8:55                                   ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-10  9:34                                     ` Andrew Cooper
2014-09-10 10:39                                     ` George Dunlap
2014-09-10 10:49                                       ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-09 20:14                           ` Tim Deegan
2014-09-10  9:30                             ` Razvan Cojocaru
2014-09-10  9:59                               ` Tamas K Lengyel
2014-09-10 10:44                               ` Tim Deegan
2014-08-28 11:48 ` [PATCH RFC V9 5/5] xen: Handle resumed instruction based on previous mem_event reply Razvan Cojocaru
2014-08-28 12:09   ` Jan Beulich

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