Re: [PATCH] kvm: dont clear TMR on EOI

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 06:49:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Intel spec says that TMR needs to be set/cleared
> when IRR is set, but kvm also clears it on  EOI.
> 
> I did some tests on a real (AMD based) system,
> and I see same TMR values both before
> and after EOI, so I think it's a minor bug in kvm.
> 
> This patch fixes TMR to be set/cleared on IRR set
> only as per spec.
> 
> And now that we don't clear TMR, we can save
> an atomic read of TMR on EOI that's not propagated
> to ioapic, by checking whether ioapic needs
> a specific vector first and calculating
> the mode afterwards.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c |   19 +++++++++++++------
>  virt/kvm/ioapic.c    |   10 +++++++---
>  virt/kvm/ioapic.h    |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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