Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752496Ab0KBJF1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:05:27 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:60983 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752468Ab0KBJFU (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Nov 2010 05:05:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4CCFD556.3070504@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:09:42 +0800 From: Xiao Guangrong User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gleb Natapov CC: Avi Kivity , Marcelo Tosatti , LKML , KVM Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: KVM: don't break vcpu 'halt' state due to apfs References: <4CCE8143.3090105@cn.fujitsu.com> <4CCE82BC.3090000@cn.fujitsu.com> <20101101125551.GD31722@redhat.com> <4CCF77B2.9080604@cn.fujitsu.com> <20101102065613.GA7881@redhat.com> <4CCFBE4E.3090804@cn.fujitsu.com> <20101102074545.GC7881@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20101102074545.GC7881@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1901 Lines: 44 On 11/02/2010 03:45 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > kvm_event_needs_reinjection() checks for nmi/interrupts that > need reinjection (not injection). Those are nmi/interrupts that > was injected but injection failed for some reason. For nmi, for > instance, kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() checks vcpu->arch.nmi_pending, > but kvm_event_needs_reinjection() checks for vcpu->arch.nmi_injected. > NMI moves from nmi_pending to nmi_injected when it is injected into vcpu > for the first time. CPU cannot be halted in this state. > Yeah, nmi is handled like this way, but for interrupt: If interruption controller is in userspace (!irqchip_in_kernel(v->kvm)), kvm_arch_vcpu_runnable() checks vcpu->arch.interrupt.pending and kvm_event_needs_reinjection() also checks vcpu->arch.interrupt.pending. Consider this case: - Guest vcpu executes 'HLT' - wakeup the vcpu and inject interrupt and apfs is completed at this time - then the vcpu can't handle apf completion and .done list keeps nonempty. Can this case happen? Sorry if i missed it again. >> Also, the pv guest can only handle an apf completion at one time, it can not ensure >> vcpu->async_pf.done is empty after kvm_check_async_pf_completion() >> > In case of PV guest it will be woken up by apf completion by > kvm_arch_async_page_present() below. ...... >> As i know, exception can not let guest exit halt state, only NMI/interruption can do it, yes? :-) > On physical HW exception cannot happen while cpu is in halt state, but > with PV we define what guest can and cannot expect, so when guest > explicitly enables apf it should be able to handle it during halt. > Ah, i see, thanks your very much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/