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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of in
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Avi Kivity |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop |
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Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:49:42 +0300 |
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On 06/23/2012 02:45 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>
> Hmm, we may need the iothread lock around cpu_set_apic_tpr for
> !kvm_irqchip_in_kernel(). And as we are at it, apic_base manipulation
> can be but there as well.
>
> With in-kernel irqchip, there is no such need. Also, no one accesses
> eflags outside of the vcpu thread, independent of the irqchip mode.
In fact !kvm_irqchip_in_kernel() is broken wrt the tpr. Interrupt
injection needs to be done atomically, but currently we check the tpr
from the injecting thread, which means the cpu thread can race with it.
We need to move the check to the vcpu thread so that the guest vcpu is
halted.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Marcelo Tosatti, 2012/06/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Marcelo Tosatti, 2012/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/23
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop,
Avi Kivity <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Avi Kivity, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, liu ping fan, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Avi Kivity, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Avi Kivity, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Avi Kivity, 2012/06/24
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] kvm: First step to push iothread lock out of inner run loop, Jan Kiszka, 2012/06/24