From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753473Ab0ATMAo (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:00:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752352Ab0ATMAn (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:00:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:17280 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750865Ab0ATMAm (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 07:00:42 -0500 Message-ID: <4B56F040.1080703@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0200 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091209 Fedora/3.0-4.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gleb Natapov CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] Add "handle page fault" PV helper. References: <1262700774-1808-5-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <1263490267.4244.340.camel@laptop> <20100117144411.GI31692@redhat.com> <4B541D08.9040802@zytor.com> <20100118085022.GA30698@redhat.com> <4B5510B1.9010202@zytor.com> <20100119065537.GF14345@redhat.com> <4B55E5D8.1070402@zytor.com> <20100119174438.GA19450@redhat.com> <4B5611A9.4050301@zytor.com> <20100120100254.GC5238@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100120100254.GC5238@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2010 12:02 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > I can inject the event as HW interrupt on vector greater then 32 but not > go through APIC so EOI will not be required. This sounds non-architectural > and I am not sure kernel has entry point code for this kind of event, it > has one for exception and one for interrupts that goes through __do_IRQ() > which assumes that interrupts should be ACKed. > Further, we start to interact with the TPR; Linux doesn't use the TPR or cr8 but if it does one day we don't want it interfering with apf. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] Add "handle page fault" PV helper. Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4B56F040.1080703@redhat.com> References: <1262700774-1808-5-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com> <1263490267.4244.340.camel@laptop> <20100117144411.GI31692@redhat.com> <4B541D08.9040802@zytor.com> <20100118085022.GA30698@redhat.com> <4B5510B1.9010202@zytor.com> <20100119065537.GF14345@redhat.com> <4B55E5D8.1070402@zytor.com> <20100119174438.GA19450@redhat.com> <4B5611A9.4050301@zytor.com> <20100120100254.GC5238@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Peter Zijlstra , kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org To: Gleb Natapov Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100120100254.GC5238@redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 01/20/2010 12:02 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > I can inject the event as HW interrupt on vector greater then 32 but not > go through APIC so EOI will not be required. This sounds non-architectural > and I am not sure kernel has entry point code for this kind of event, it > has one for exception and one for interrupts that goes through __do_IRQ() > which assumes that interrupts should be ACKed. > Further, we start to interact with the TPR; Linux doesn't use the TPR or cr8 but if it does one day we don't want it interfering with apf. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org