Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/8] KVM: x86: Allow marking an exception as reinjected | From | Alexander Graf <> | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:41:41 +0200 |
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On 23.04.2010, at 16:27, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 03:57:32PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 22.04.2010, at 12:33, Joerg Roedel wrote: >> >>> This patch adds logic to kvm/x86 which allows to mark an >>> injected exception as reinjected. This allows to remove an >>> ugly hack from svm_complete_interrupts that prevented >>> exceptions from being reinjected at all in the nested case. >>> The hack was necessary because an reinjected exception into >>> the nested guest could cause a nested vmexit emulation. But >>> reinjected exceptions must not intercept. The downside of >>> the hack is that a exception that in injected could get >>> lost. >>> This patch fixes the problem and puts the code for it into >>> generic x86 files because. Nested-VMX will likely have the >>> same problem and could reuse the code. >> >> So we always handle the reinjection from KVM code? Shouldn't the l1 >> hypervisor do this? > > No. We only have the problem if we need to handle a nested intercept on > the host level instead of reinjecting it. So the nested hypervisor > couldn't be involved in the reinjection.
Hrm, makes sense. Not pretty.
Alex
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