Re: [RFC PATCH v6 01/92] kvm: introduce KVMI (VM introspection subsystem)

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On 12/08/19 22:20, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The refcounting approach seems a bit backwards, and AFAICT is driven by
> implementing unhook via a message, which also seems backwards.  I assume
> hook and unhook are relatively rare events and not performance critical,
> so make those the restricted/slow flows, e.g. force userspace to quiesce
> the VM by making unhook() mutually exclusive with every vcpu ioctl() and
> maybe anything that takes kvm->lock. 

The reason for the unhook event, as far as I understand, is because the
introspection appliance can poke int3 into the guest and needs an
opportunity to undo that.

I don't have a big problem with that and the refcounting, at least for
this first iteration---it can be tackled later, once the general event
loop is simplified---however I agree with the other comments that Sean
made.  Fortunately it should not be hard to apply them to the whole
patchset with search and replace on the patches themselves.

Paolo
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