On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 09:57:03PM +0100, Christoffer Dall wrote: > Some architectures may decide to do different things during > kvm_arch_vcpu_load depending on the ioctl being executed. For example, > arm64 is about to do significant work in vcpu load/put when running a > vcpu, but it's problematic to do this for any other vcpu ioctl than > KVM_RUN. > > Further, while it may be possible to call kvm_arch_vcpu_load() for a > number of non-KVM_RUN ioctls, it makes the KVM/ARM code more difficult > to reason about, especially after my optimization series, because a lot > of things can now happen, where we have to consider if we're really in > the process of running a vcpu or not. > > This series will first move the vcpu_load() and vcpu_put() calls in the > arch generic dispatch function into each case of the switch statement > and then, one-by-one, pushed the calls down into the architecture > specific code making the changes for each ioctl as required. > And the patches are also available at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cdall/linux.git vcpu-load-put Thanks, -Christoffer _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
