Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:04:03 +0200
From: oerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kvm@vger.kernel.org, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
       Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
       Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>, zhiteng.huang@intel.com,
       tim.c.chen@intel.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] perf & kvm: Enhance perf to collect KVM guest os
	statistics from host side
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2030 at 04:57:38PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> I checked svm.c and it seems svm.c doesn't trigger a NMI to host if the NMI
> happens in guest os. In addition, svm_complete_interrupts is called after
> interrupt is enabled.

Yes. The NMI is held pending by the hardware until the STGI instruction
is executed.
And for nested svm the svm_complete_interrupts function needs to be
executed after the nested exit handling. Therefore it is done late on
svm.

	Joerg

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