Christian Borntraeger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > >> * Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Avi, Ingo, Laurent, >>> >>> what do you think about the following patch? >>> >> fine to me. I guess this should mostly be a NOP to KVM, right? >> > > Yes, currently kvm on x86 has interrupts disabled during vmx and svm. So > in_interrupt should be always false on x86. > But isn't account_system_time() called via the timer tick interrupt, and never directly from kvm? So in_interrupt() would always be true.
The sequence, as I understand it, is: - disable interrupts - set PF_VCPU - switch to guest - exit guest due to timer tick - enable interrupts - dispatch timer tick - account_system_time() With the fine-grained accounting ppc and s390 have, this is different. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
