Re: [PATCH 00/10] KVM: s390: make use of the GIB

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On 10/31/2018 11:09 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 25.10.18 14:37, Michael Mueller wrote:
>> The Guest Information Area (GIB) and its mechanics is part of
>> the AIV facility. It provides hardware support to process
>> Adapter Interruptions (AI) for pagable storage mode guests. 
>>
>> Whenever a guest cannot process an AI because none of its
>> vcpus is running in SIE context, a GIB alert interruption is
>> sent to and handled by the host program to dispatch a vcpu of
>> the respective guest.
>>
>> Eventually, the AI is handled by the guest.
> 
> 
> This does not apply to vSIE, right?

We do not provide GISA, GIB and friends to the guest (e.g. we do not have
the scp bits set). So right now we do not have anything to do for vsie.




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