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From: "Graf (AWS), Alexander" <graf@amazon.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Suthikulpanit, Suravee" <Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"rkrcmar@redhat.com" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	"joro@8bytes.org" <joro@8bytes.org>,
	"vkuznets@redhat.com" <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	"rkagan@virtuozzo.com" <rkagan@virtuozzo.com>,
	"Schoenherr, Jan H." <jschoenh@amazon.de>,
	"Raslan, KarimAllah" <karahmed@amazon.de>,
	"Lukaszewicz, Rimas" <rimasluk@amazon.com>,
	"Grimm, Jon" <Jon.Grimm@amd.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 13/17] kvm: i8254: Deactivate APICv when using in-kernel PIT re-injection mode.
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 07:05:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7060AA92-0ACD-40F6-868A-5A7234F46C55@amazon.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4e4bd2c3-50c4-b23e-2924-728a37a5f157@redhat.com>



> Am 04.11.2019 um 22:50 schrieb Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>:
> 
> On 04/11/19 19:54, Suthikulpanit, Suravee wrote:
>> I see you point.
>> 
>>> We can work around it by adding a global mask of inhibit reasons that
>>> apply to the vendor, and initializing it as soon as possible in vmx.c/svm.c.
>>> 
>>> Then kvm_request_apicv_update can ignore reasons that the vendor doesn't
>>> care about.
>> 
>> What about we enhance the pre_update_apivc_exec_ctrl() to also return 
>> success/fail. In here, the vendor specific code can decide to update 
>> APICv state or not.
> 
> That works for me, too.  Something like return false for deactivate and
> true for activate.

I'm trying to wrap my head around how that will work with live migration. Do we also need to save/restore the deactivate reasons?

Alex

> 
> Paolo



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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-05  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-01 22:41 [PATCH v4 00/17] kvm: x86: Support AMD SVM AVIC w/ in-kernel irqchip mode Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 01/17] kvm: x86: Modify kvm_x86_ops.get_enable_apicv() to use struct kvm parameter Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 02/17] kvm: lapic: Introduce APICv update helper function Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 03/17] kvm: x86: Introduce APICv deactivate bits Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-02  9:51   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 04/17] kvm: x86: Add support for activate/de-activate APICv at runtime Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-02  9:52   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-04 19:22     ` Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 05/17] kvm: x86: Add APICv activate/deactivate request trace points Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 06/17] kvm: x86: svm: Add support to activate/deactivate posted interrupts Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 07/17] svm: Add support for setup/destroy virutal APIC backing page for AVIC Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-04 21:53   ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-12  0:05     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 08/17] kvm: x86: Introduce APICv pre-update hook Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-04 22:05   ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-12  0:08     ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2019-11-12 11:12       ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 09/17] svm: Add support for activate/deactivate AVIC at runtime Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 10/17] kvm: x86: hyperv: Use APICv update request interface Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 11/17] svm: Deactivate AVIC when launching guest with nested SVM support Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 12/17] svm: Temporary deactivate AVIC during ExtINT handling Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-02 10:01   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 13/17] kvm: i8254: Deactivate APICv when using in-kernel PIT re-injection mode Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-02  9:57   ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-04 18:54     ` Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-04 21:49       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-05  7:05         ` Graf (AWS), Alexander [this message]
2019-11-05  8:40           ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-04 23:17     ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-05 22:47       ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-11-11 17:37         ` Suravee Suthikulpanit
2019-11-12 12:22           ` Roman Kagan
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 14/17] kvm: lapic: Clean up APIC predefined macros Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 15/17] kvm: ioapic: Refactor kvm_ioapic_update_eoi() Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 16/17] kvm: ioapic: Lazy update IOAPIC EOI Suthikulpanit, Suravee
2019-11-01 22:41 ` [PATCH v4 17/17] svm: Allow AVIC with in-kernel irqchip mode Suthikulpanit, Suravee

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