Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: SVM: fix race between interrupt delivery and AVIC inhibition

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On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 12:54 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 1/5/22 12:03, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > > Hmm, my preference would be to keep the "return -1" even though apicv_active must
> > > be rechecked.  That would help highlight that returning "failure" after this point
> > > is not an option as it would result in kvm_lapic_set_irr() being called twice.
> > I don't mind either - this will fix the tracepoint I recently added to report the
> > number of interrupts that were delivered by AVIC/APICv - with this patch,
> > all of them count as such.
> 
> Perhaps we can move the tracepoints in the delivery functions.  This 
> also makes them more precise in the rare case where apicv_active changes 
> in the middle of the function.

That is what I was thinking to do as well, but I don't mind returning the 'return -1' as well.
Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

> 
> Paolo
> 





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