On 03/31/2011 11:24 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:23:28AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 03/30/2011 08:47 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>  >On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:16:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  >>   On 03/30/2011 06:30 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>  >>   >Based on Gleb's idea, fix race between nmi injection and enabling
>  >>   >nmi window in a simpler way.
>  >>   >
>  >>   >Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti<mtosa...@redhat.com>
>  >>   >
>  >>   >diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>  >>   >index a6a129f..9a7cc1be 100644
>  >>   >--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>  >>   >+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
>  >>   >@@ -5152,6 +5152,7 @@ static void kvm_put_guest_xcr0(struct kvm_vcpu 
*vcpu)
>  >>   >    static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  >>   >    {
>  >>   >           int r;
>  >>   >+  int nmi_pending;
>  >>   >           bool req_int_win = !irqchip_in_kernel(vcpu->kvm)&&
>  >>   >                   vcpu->run->request_interrupt_window;
>  >>   >
>  >>   >@@ -5195,11 +5196,13 @@ static int vcpu_enter_guest(struct kvm_vcpu 
*vcpu)
>  >>   >           if (unlikely(r))
>  >>   >                   goto out;
>  >>   >
>  >>   >+  nmi_pending = ACCESS_ONCE(vcpu->arch.nmi_pending);
>  >>   >+
>  >>   >           if (kvm_check_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu) || req_int_win) {
>  >>   >                   inject_pending_event(vcpu);
>  >>   >
>  >>   >                   /* enable NMI/IRQ window open exits if needed */
>  >>   >-          if (vcpu->arch.nmi_pending)
>  >>   >+          if (nmi_pending)
>  >>   >                           kvm_x86_ops->enable_nmi_window(vcpu);
>  >>   >                   else if (kvm_cpu_has_interrupt(vcpu) || req_int_win)
>  >>   >                           kvm_x86_ops->enable_irq_window(vcpu);
>  >>   >
>  >>
>  >>   What about the check in inject_pending_events()?
>  >>
>  >Didn't we decide that this check is not a problem? Worst that can happen
>  >is NMI injection will be delayed till next exit.
>
>  Could be very far in the future.
>
Next host interrupt. But with tickles host and guest yeah.


esp. important with NMI, which may be used in a situation where your tick (and everything else) are dead.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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