From: Julien Grall <julien.grall@arm.com>
To: Corneliu ZUZU <czuzu@bitdefender.com>, xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
Razvan Cojocaru <rcojocaru@bitdefender.com>,
George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>,
Tamas K Lengyel <tamas@tklengyel.com>,
Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] vm-event: introduce vm_event_vcpu_enter
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:22:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5763F982.7050109@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81e55cd7-10d8-2dcd-f36d-e43823fa2d08@bitdefender.com>
Hello,
On 17/06/16 12:40, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
> On 6/17/2016 11:55 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
>> On 16/06/16 15:08, Corneliu ZUZU wrote:
>>> diff --git a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
>>> index d31f821..ba248c8 100644
>>> --- a/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
>>> +++ b/xen/arch/arm/domain.c
>>> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>>> #include <xen/errno.h>
>>> #include <xen/bitops.h>
>>> #include <xen/grant_table.h>
>>> +#include <xen/vm_event.h>
>>>
>>> #include <asm/current.h>
>>> #include <asm/event.h>
>>> @@ -251,6 +252,8 @@ static void schedule_tail(struct vcpu *prev)
>>>
>>> ctxt_switch_to(current);
>>>
>>> + vm_event_vcpu_enter(current);
>>> +
>>> local_irq_enable();
>>>
>>> context_saved(prev);
>>> @@ -296,7 +299,7 @@ void context_switch(struct vcpu *prev, struct
>>> vcpu *next)
>>>
>>> void continue_running(struct vcpu *same)
>>> {
>>> - /* Nothing to do */
>>> + vm_event_vcpu_enter(same);
>>> }
>>>
>>> void sync_local_execstate(void)
>>
>> From my understanding of the commit message, vm_event_vcpu_enter
>> should be called before returning to the guest. The scheduling
>> functions are not called every-time Xen is returning to the guest. So
>> if you want to do every time Xen is re-entering to the guest, then
>> this should be done in leave_hypervisor_tail.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>
> Which is also done, vm_event_vcpu_enter is called from
> leave_hypervisor_tail as well.
Sorry I did not spot this one.
> Are you saying that calling from leave_hypervisor_tail is enough and
> that the schedule_tail call is not necessary?
leave_hypervisor_tail will always be called before returning to the
guest. So a call to vm_event_vcpu_enter in this function will be sufficient.
Regards,
--
Julien Grall
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-16 14:04 [PATCH 0/7] vm-event: Implement ARM support for control-register writes Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:06 ` [PATCH 1/7] minor (formatting) fixes Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:24 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 19:19 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 7:06 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 10:46 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:02 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 8:33 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 8:36 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 9:29 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-17 9:35 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 9:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 9:36 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 9:40 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 9:42 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 19:05 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-16 14:07 ` [PATCH 2/7] vm-event: VM_EVENT_FLAG_DENY requires VM_EVENT_FLAG_VCPU_PAUSED Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:11 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 8:43 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 11:26 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 15:09 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-22 8:34 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:08 ` [PATCH 3/7] vm-event: introduce vm_event_vcpu_enter Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:51 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 20:10 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 20:33 ` Razvan Cojocaru
2016-06-17 10:41 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 7:17 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:13 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 11:27 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 12:13 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:17 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 9:19 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 8:55 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 11:40 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 13:22 ` Julien Grall [this message]
2016-06-16 14:09 ` [PATCH 4/7] vm-event/x86: use vm_event_vcpu_enter properly Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 15:00 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 20:20 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 7:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:23 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:27 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 9:24 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/7] x86: replace monitor_write_data.do_write with enum Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:12 ` [PATCH 6/7] vm-event/arm: move hvm_event_cr->common vm_event_monitor_cr Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 15:16 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 8:25 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 8:38 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-17 11:31 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 7:08 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-21 7:20 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-21 15:22 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-22 6:33 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-16 16:55 ` Tamas K Lengyel
2016-06-17 10:37 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:13 ` [PATCH 7/7] vm-event/arm: implement support for control-register write vm-events Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 14:26 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-16 19:24 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 21:28 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 11:46 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-16 16:49 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-17 10:36 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-17 13:18 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 16:35 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 17:17 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-22 18:39 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 19:37 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-22 19:41 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-23 5:31 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23 5:49 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23 11:11 ` Julien Grall
2016-06-24 9:32 ` Corneliu ZUZU
2016-06-23 11:00 ` Julien Grall
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