On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 02:41:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 06:20:18AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 15:35 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > This is actually documented in api.txt, though not in relation to > > > reset: > > > > > > NOTE: For KVM_EXIT_IO, KVM_EXIT_MMIO and KVM_EXIT_OSI, the > > > corresponding operations are complete (and guest state is > > > consistent) > > > only after userspace has re-entered the kernel with KVM_RUN. The > > > kernel side will first finish incomplete operations and then check > > > for pending signals. Userspace can re-enter the guest with an > > > unmasked signal pending to complete pending operations. > > > > > > For x86 the issue was with live migration - you can't copy guest > > > register state in the middle of an I/O operation. Reset is actually > > > similar, but it involves writing state (which can then be overwritten) > > > instead of reading it. > > > > Hrm, except that doing KVM_RUN with a signal is very cumbersome to do > > and I couldn't quite find the logic in qemu to do it ... but I might > > just have missed it. I can see indeed that in the migration case you > > want to actually complete the operation rather than just "abort it". > > > > Any chance you can point me to the code that performs that trick qemu > > side for migration ? > > kvm-all.c: > > kvm_arch_pre_run(env, run); > if (env->exit_request) { > DPRINTF("interrupt exit requested\n"); > /* > * KVM requires us to reenter the kernel after IO exits to > * complete > * instruction emulation. This self-signal will ensure that > * we > * leave ASAP again. > */ > qemu_cpu_kick_self(); > } See kvm_arch_process_async_events() call to qemu_system_reset_request() in target-i386/kvm.c. The whole thing is fragile, though: we rely on the order events are processed inside KVM_RUN, in x86: 1) If there is pending MMIO, process it. 2) If not, return with -EINTR (and KVM_EXIT_INTR) in case there is a signal pending. That way, the vcpu will not process the stop event from the main loop (ie not exit from the kvm_cpu_exec() loop), until MMIO is finished. > > Anthony seems to think that for reset we can just abort the operation > > state in the kernel when the MP state changes. > > > > Cheers, > > Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html