Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit

2015-10-12 Thread Roman Kagan
On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 04:41:15PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 09/10/2015 15:39, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > > A new vcpu exit is introduced to notify the userspace of the > > changes in Hyper-V synic configuraion triggered by guest writing to the > > corresponding MSRs. > > Why is this exit

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit

2015-10-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/10/2015 15:39, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > From: Andrey Smetanin > > A new vcpu exit is introduced to notify the userspace of the > changes in Hyper-V synic configuraion triggered by guest writing to the > corresponding MSRs. > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Smetanin

Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit

2015-10-09 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/10/2015 16:53, Roman Kagan wrote: >> > Why is this exit necessary? > The guest writes to synic-related MSRs and that should take "immediate" > effect. > > E.g. it may decide to disable or relocate the message page by writing to > SIMP MSR. The host is then supposed to stop accessing the