Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/5] KVM: X86: Boost vCPU which is in critical section

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On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 08:07, Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > index 425fd7f38fa9..6b300496bbd0 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> > @@ -10375,6 +10375,28 @@ static int vcpu_run(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> >       return r;
> >  }
> >
> > +static int kvm_vcpu_non_preemptable(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>
> s/preemtable/preemptible
>
> And I'd recommend inverting the return, and also return a bool, i.e.
>
> static bool kvm_vcpu_is_preemptible(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

Good suggestion.

>
> > +{
> > +     int count;
> > +
> > +     if (!vcpu->arch.pv_pc.preempt_count_enabled)
> > +             return 0;
> > +
> > +     if (!kvm_read_guest_cached(vcpu->kvm, &vcpu->arch.pv_pc.preempt_count_cache,
> > +         &count, sizeof(int)))
> > +             return (count & ~PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED);
>
> This cements PREEMPT_NEED_RESCHED into KVM's guest/host ABI.  I doubt the sched
> folks will be happy with that.
>
> > +
> > +     return 0;
> > +}
> > +



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