> > We have > > - wait (wait bit in PSW) > > - disabled wait (wait bit and interrupt fencing in PSW) > > - STOPPED (not related to PSW, state change usually handled via service processor or hypervisor) > > > > I think we have to differentiate between KVM/TCG. On KVM we always do in kernel halt and qemu sees a halted only for STOPPED or disabled wait. TCG has to take care of the normal wait as well. > > > > From a first glimpse, a disabled wait and STOPPED look similar, but there are (important) differences, e.g. other CPUs get a different a different result from a SIGP SENSE. This makes a big difference, e.g. for Linux guests, that send a SIGP STOP, followed by a SIGP SENSE loop until the CPU is down on hotplug (and shutdown, kexec..) So I think we agree, that handling the cpu states natively makes sense. > > > > The question is now only how to model it correctly without breaking TCG/KVM and reuse as much common code as possible. Correct? > > > > Do I understand you correctly, that your collapsing of stopped and halted is only in the qemu coding sense, IOW maybe we could just modify kvm_arch_process_async_events to consider the STOPPED state, as TCGs sigp implementation does not support SMP anyway? > > That works for me, yes. > > > Alex > I had a look at it yesterday and it seems like we can totally drop this patch: 1. TCG doesn't support multiple CPUs and the TCG SIGP implementation isn't ready for proper STOP/START/SENSE. Testing for STOPPED cpus in cpu_has_work() can be dropped. To be able to support TCG was the main reason for this patch - as we don't want to do so for now, we can leave it as is. We can still decide to support the cpu states later using a mechanism suggest by Alex (interrupt_requests). Even if cpu_has_work() would make cpu.c:cpu_thread_is_idle() return false, kvm_arch_process_async_events() called by kvm-all.c:kvm_cpu_exec() would make it go back to sleep. Therefore a stopped VCPU will never be able to run in the KVM case (because it always has cs->halted = true). 2. The unhalt in kvm_arch_process_async_events is for a special case where a VCPU is in disabled wait and receives e.g. a machine-check interrupt. These might happen in the future, for now we will never see them (the only way to get a vcpu out of disabled wait are SIGP RESTART/CPU RESET - so we don't break anything at that point). David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
