linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V13 10/10] arm/arm64: KVM: add guest SEA support

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Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2017 10:44:07 -0600
From:   "Baicar, Tyler" <tbaicar@...eaurora.org>
To:     gengdongjiu <gengdongjiu@...wei.com>,
        Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V13 10/10] arm/arm64: KVM: add guest SEA support

Hello,


On 3/27/2017 10:19 PM, gengdongjiu wrote:
> Hi Tyler,
>
> I have a question for below code.
>
> On 2017/3/25 0:01, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>   	is_iabt = kvm_vcpu_trap_is_iabt(vcpu);
>> -	if (unlikely(!is_iabt && kvm_vcpu_dabt_isextabt(vcpu))) {
>> +	if (unlikely(!is_iabt && kvm_vcpu_dabt_isextabt(vcpu)) && sea_status) {
>>   		kvm_inject_vabt(vcpu);
> when it is SEA synchronized abort, why here inject a asynchronous abort through kvm_inject_vabt(vcpu) instead of synchronized abort? seem the original kvm source code is also do that, so I am confused about that.
> thanks .
If the SEA was properly handled, then sea_status will avoid injecting 
the vabt. I'm going to just return after the SEA handling in the next 
patch though.

Thanks,
Tyler
>
>>   		return 1;
>>   	}

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