On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 03:30:09PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > Move sending of a virq event for oprofile to the local vcpu from NMI > to softirq context. > > This has been tested with a small test patch using the continuation > framework of patch 1 for all NMIs and doing a print to console in > the continuation handler. > > Version 1 of this small series was sent to the security list before. > > Juergen Gross (2): > xen/x86: add nmi continuation framework > xen/oprofile: use set_nmi_continuation() for sending virq to guest
Apart from the comments in patch 1, I think this is a fine approach if it allows us to restore to the previous state of the event lock. I think we should be expecting a v3 with the nmi callback prototype? Thanks, Roger.