linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Introduce VCPU-wide notion of guest-mode V2

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Date:	Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:38:30 +0200
From:	"Nadav Har'El" <nyh@...h.technion.ac.il>
To:	"Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@....com>
Cc:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Introduce VCPU-wide notion of guest-mode V2

On Wed, Dec 01, 2010, Roedel, Joerg wrote about "Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: Introduce VCPU-wide notion of guest-mode V2":
> Btw, another idea which came up recently was to concentrate the actuall
> vmexit emulation at a single point. Every code place which does the exit
> directly today will be changed to only set a request-bit and the real
> exit is then done later. Your code might already do this, I havn't

In my current patches, there is single function nested_vmx_vmexit() which
emulates the exit (exits from L2 to L1), but it is called in several places,
the most significant are of course in vmx_handle_exit (when L1 asked an exit
on the given event), and vmx_interrupt_allowed (when we inject an interrupt
and L1 asked to exit on interrupts). This area of my code definitely needs
some reorganization, as Gleb pointed out in his review.

> This would fit very well in the generic code because it already has
> request-bit infrastructure. What do you think, can nested VMX also make
> use of that too?

Can you please say a few words why you'd want to move this nested-exit
request bit to x86.c? Do you want to move some of the exit logic to x86.c -
e.g., for the injection logic?

Nadav.

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