From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC patch 14/15] workpending: Provide infrastructure for work before entering a guest
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:48:05 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1909201345380.1858@nanos.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0cc964dc-4d00-05ec-1ed1-f6cee7370d7b@redhat.com>
On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > + /* Any extra architecture specific work */
> > + return arch_exit_to_guestmode_work(kvm, vcpu, ti_work);
> > +}
>
> Perhaps, in virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:
>
> int kvm_exit_to_guestmode_work(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> unsigned long ti_work)
> {
...
> }
>
> and in kernel/entry/common.c:
>
> int core_exit_to_guestmode_work(unsigned long ti_work)
> {
...
> }
Makes sense.
> so that kernel/entry/ is not polluted with KVM structs and APIs.
>
> Perhaps even extract the body of core_exit_to_usermode_work's while loop
> to a separate function, and call it as
>
> core_exit_to_usermode_work_once(NULL,
> ti_work & EXIT_TO_GUESTMODE_WORK);
Doh, its too obvious now that you mention it :)
> from core_exit_to_guestmode_work.
>
> In general I don't mind having these exit_to_guestmode functions in
> kvm_host.h, and only having entry-common.h export EXIT_TO_GUESTMODE_WORK
> and ARCH_EXIT_TO_GUESTMODE_WORK. Unless you had good reasons to do the
> opposite...
That was an arbitrary choice and it does not matter much where it lives.
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-20 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-19 15:03 [RFC patch 00/15] entry: Provide generic implementation for host and guest entry/exit work Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 01/15] entry: Provide generic syscall entry functionality Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-20 23:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-20 11:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-23 9:05 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 02/15] x86/entry: Remove _TIF_NOHZ from _TIF_WORK_SYSCALL_ENTRY Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-20 23:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-23 20:43 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 03/15] x86/entry: Use generic syscall entry function Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-20 23:41 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-23 8:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 04/15] arm64/entry: " Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-20 12:21 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 05/15] entry: Provide generic syscall exit function Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 06/15] x86/entry: Use generic syscall exit functionality Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 07/15] arm64/syscall: Remove obscure flag check Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-20 14:29 ` Catalin Marinas
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 08/15] arm64/syscall: Use generic syscall exit functionality Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 09/15] entry: Provide generic exit to usermode functionality Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-23 8:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 10/15] x86/entry: Move irq tracing to C code Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-23 8:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-23 10:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-23 11:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-23 11:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-23 12:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-23 17:24 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-26 2:59 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 11/15] x86/entry: Use generic exit to usermode Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 12/15] arm64/entry: " Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 13/15] arm64/entry: Move FPU restore out of exit_to_usermode() loop Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 14/15] workpending: Provide infrastructure for work before entering a guest Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 11:48 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2019-09-23 18:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-26 11:35 ` Miroslav Benes
2019-09-19 15:03 ` [RFC patch 15/15] x86/kvm: Use GENERIC_EXIT_WORKPENDING Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-19 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 15:12 ` [RFC patch 00/15] entry: Provide generic implementation for host and guest entry/exit work Mark Rutland
2019-09-23 20:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-09-23 18:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-24 6:50 ` Christian Borntraeger
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