On Wed, 2020-12-23 at 14:45 +0000, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> From: Lorenzo Brescia <lorenzo.brescia@edu.unito.it>
> 
> On VMX, if we exit and then re-enter immediately without leaving
> the vmx_vcpu_run() function, the kvm_entry event is not logged.
> That means we will see one (or more) kvm_exit, without its (their)
> corresponding kvm_entry, as shown here:
> 
>  CPU-1979 [002] 89.871187: kvm_entry: vcpu 1
>  CPU-1979 [002] 89.871218: kvm_exit:  reason MSR_WRITE
>  CPU-1979 [002] 89.871259: kvm_exit:  reason MSR_WRITE
> 
> It also seems possible for a kvm_entry event to be logged, but then
> we leave vmx_vcpu_run() right away (if vmx->emulation_required is
> true). In this case, we will have a spurious kvm_entry event in the
> trace.
> 
Gentle ping... :-)

Thanks and Regards

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Virtualization Software Engineer
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