Re: [PATCH 2/2] KVM: SVM: Disable posted interrupts for odd IRQs

[Alexander Graf]

On 04.09.19 01:20, Liran Alon wrote:
> > On 3 Sep 2019, at 17:29, Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We can easily route hardware interrupts directly into VM context when
> > they target the "Fixed" or "LowPriority" delivery modes.
> >
> > However, on modes such as "SMI" or "Init", we need to go via KVM code
> > to actually put the vCPU into a different mode of operation, so we can
> > not post the interrupt
> >
> > Add code in the SVM PI logic to explicitly refuse to establish posted
> > mappings for advanced IRQ deliver modes.
> >
> > This fixes a bug I have with code which configures real hardware to
> > inject virtual SMIs into my guest.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <graf@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Nit: I prefer to squash both commits into one that change both VMX & SVM.
> As itâs exactly the same change.

It's the same change (hence the same patch set), but they touch 
different files and so for bisectability it's still convenient to have 
them as different commits. I'd really prefer to have them stay separate.

Thanks a lot for the review! :)


Alex



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