Re: [RFC 1/2] KVM/nVMX: Cleanly exit from L2 to L1 on user-space exit

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On Tue, 2018-02-20 at 09:19 -0800, Jim Mattson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 9:44 PM, KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Is there any thing else that I am missing?
> 
> I haven't looked at your entire patch, but it looks like you are
> synthesizing a VM-exit from L2 to L1 for "external interrupt." What if
> the “external-interrupt exiting” VM-execution control in vmcs12 is
> clear? Then L1 will not be expecting a VM-exit for "external
> interrupt."

Yup, I thought about that but then I hoped that all L1 hypervisors 
would not mind this :)

Anyway, your approach is indeed superior and seems to fix all outlined 
problems.
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