On 09/02/2011 02:25 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 02.09.2011, at 20:17, Scott Wood wrote:
> 
>> On 09/02/2011 08:53 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On 08/27/2011 01:31 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
>>>> int_pending was only being lowered if a bit in pending_exceptions
>>>> was cleared during exception delivery -- but for interrupts, we clear
>>>> it during IACK/TSR emulation.  This caused paravirt for enabling
>>>> MSR[EE] to be ineffective.
>>>
>>> But that means that int_pending can still be 1 even though there is none
>>> pending as we don't get the call to deliver_interrupts when it gets
>>> lowered. Please create a common function to remove a bit from
>>> pending_exceptions and do the check there.
>>
>> I can do that if you want, but kvmppc_core_deliver_interrupts() should
>> always get called before we return to the guest.  Dequeues that are
>> asynchronous to a guest exit should be very rare, and would be cured on
>> the first subsequent guest exit.
> 
> Yes, but this means we have yet another subtile indirect assumption. The more 
> we have those, the more people who work on the code need to know about the 
> code to actually work on it. So the easier we can keep the scheme, the better 
> IMHO.
> 
> So yes, please replace clear_bit(pending, ...) with clear_bit_pending(...) or 
> so which then would also do the required magic to set the shared page values.

OK.

-Scott

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