Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] x86, apicv: add virtual interrupt delivery support

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:26:30PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 01:30:49PM +0800, Yang Zhang wrote:
> > From: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Virtual interrupt delivery avoids KVM to inject vAPIC interrupts
> > manually, which is fully taken care of by the hardware. This needs
> > some special awareness into existing interrupr injection path:
> > 
> > - for pending interrupt, instead of direct injection, we may need
> >   update architecture specific indicators before resuming to guest.
> > 
> > - A pending interrupt, which is masked by ISR, should be also
> >   considered in above update action, since hardware will decide
> >   when to inject it at right time. Current has_interrupt and
> >   get_interrupt only returns a valid vector from injection p.o.v.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Yang Zhang <yang.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > +	if (enable_apicv_reg_vid)
> > +		kvm_x86_ops->update_cr8_intercept = NULL;
> > +	else
> > +		kvm_x86_ops->update_apic_irq = NULL;
> 
> Loading the module with enable_apicv=0, then enable_apicv=1, 
> fails?
It is not changeable after modules is loaded. This is true for all
kvm-intel.ko parameters.

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