Re: [RFC 1/8]KVM: fix bugs in kvm sched integration patch

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Jul 23 2007 - 06:46:45 EST


Shaohua Li wrote:
fix some bugs in kvm-sch patch.

There is now a 'preempt-hooks' branch on kvm.git with the preempt-hooks work. I'll continually update and rebase it against master.

1. vmcs_readl/vmcs_writel are called with preempt enabled

Why is that bad?

2. preempt_count check doesn't make sense with preempt disabled

That is already fixed in the branch.

3. vmx_cpu_run doesn't handle error correctly and kvm_mmu_reload might
sleep with mutex changes, so I move it above.

Yes.

@@ -2001,6 +1997,10 @@ preempted:
kvm_guest_debug_pre(vcpu);
again:
+ r = kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu);
+ if (unlikely(r))
+ goto out;
+
preempt_disable();
if (!vcpu->mmio_read_completed)
@@ -2009,10 +2009,6 @@ again:
vmx_save_host_state(vcpu);
kvm_load_guest_fpu(vcpu);
- r = kvm_mmu_reload(vcpu);
- if (unlikely(r))
- goto out;
-
/*
* Loading guest fpu may have cleared host cr0.ts
*/

I'll add this (and the spinlock->mutex conversion) to the branch.

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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