linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: fix acknowledge interrupt on exit when APICv is in use

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2014 14:51:15 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@...mens.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>, Bandan Das <bsd@...hat.com>,
	Zhang Yang <yang.z.zhang@...el.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: nVMX: fix acknowledge interrupt on exit when
 APICv is in use

Il 01/08/2014 10:12, Wanpeng Li ha scritto:
> +int kvm_lapic_ack_apicv(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> +{
> +	struct kvm_lapic *apic = vcpu->arch.apic;
> +	int vec;
> +
> +	vec = kvm_apic_has_interrupt(vcpu);
> +
> +	if (vec == -1)
> +		return vec;
> +
> +	apic_set_vector(vec, apic->regs + APIC_ISR);
> +	apic_update_ppr(apic);
> +	apic_clear_vector(vec, apic->regs + APIC_IRR);
> +
> +	return vec;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_lapic_ack_apicv);

I would prefer reusing kvm_get_apic_interrupt here (by modifying
kvm_cpu_get_interrupt, apic_set_isr and apic_clear_irr) as I had
sketched in the previous version of the patches.

There is no reason for kvm_cpu_get_interrupt to return -1 if virtual
interrupt delivery is enabled.

Paolo
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