Re: [PATCH V3] perf & kvm: Enhance perf to collect KVM guest osstatistics from host side

[oerg Roedel]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2030 at 04:57:38PM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:

> I checked svm.c and it seems svm.c doesn't trigger a NMI to host if the NMI
> happens in guest os. In addition, svm_complete_interrupts is called after
> interrupt is enabled.

Yes. The NMI is held pending by the hardware until the STGI instruction
is executed.
And for nested svm the svm_complete_interrupts function needs to be
executed after the nested exit handling. Therefore it is done late on
svm.

	Joerg

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