On 24/09/19 17:34, Liran Alon wrote:
> Gentle ping.
I'm going to send another pull request to Linus this week and then will
get back to this patch (and also Krish's performance counter series).
Paolo
>> On 19 Sep 2019, at 17:08, Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Liran Alon <liran.alon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patch series aims to add a vmx test to verify the functionality
>>> introduced by KVM commit:
>>> 4b9852f4f389 ("KVM: x86: Fix INIT signal handling in various CPU states")
>>>
>>> The test verifies the following functionality:
>>> 1) An INIT signal received when CPU is in VMX operation
>>> is latched until it exits VMX operation.
>>> 2) If there is an INIT signal pending when CPU is in
>>> VMX non-root mode, it result in VMExit with (reason == 3).
>>> 3) Exit from VMX non-root mode on VMExit do not clear
>>> pending INIT signal in LAPIC.
>>> 4) When CPU exits VMX operation, pending INIT signal in
>>> LAPIC is processed.
>>>
>>> In order to write such a complex test, the vmx tests framework was
>>> enhanced to support using VMX in non BSP CPUs. This enhancement is
>>> implemented in patches 1-7. The test itself is implemented at patch 8.
>>> This enhancement to the vmx tests framework is a bit hackish, but
>>> I believe it's OK because this functionality is rarely required by
>>> other VMX tests.
>>>
>>
>> Tested-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Vitaly
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