Re: [PATCH] Introduce bitmask for apic attention reasons.

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On 04/19/2012 12:33 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> The patch introduces a bitmap that will hold reasons apic should be
> checked during vmexit. This is in a preparation for vp eoi patch
> that will add one more check on vmexit. With the bitmap we can do
> if(apic_attention) to check everything simultaneously which will
> add zero overhead on the fast path.
>

Good idea.

>  
> +#define KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC	0

Comment above relating this to apic_attention.

>  	vcpu->arch.apic->vapic_addr = vapic_addr;
> +	if (vapic_addr)
> +		__set_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention);
> +	else
> +		__clear_bit(KVM_APIC_CHECK_VAPIC, &vcpu->arch.apic_attention);
>  }
>

Unrelated: this pattern is probably common.  Would be nice to have a
__deposit_bit() function.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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