linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/5] x86/kvm: Handle task

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Message-ID: <20190801162451.GE31538@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 18:24:51 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Julia Cartwright <julia@...com>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] x86/kvm: Handle task_work on VMENTER/EXIT

On 08/01, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>
> @@ -8172,6 +8174,10 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcp
>  			++vcpu->stat.signal_exits;
>  			break;
>  		}
> +
> +		if (notify_resume_pending())
> +			tracehook_handle_notify_resume();

shouldn't you drop kvm->srcu before tracehook_handle_notify_resume() ?

I don't understand this code at all, but vcpu_run() does this even before
cond_resched().

Oleg.