Re: [PATCH 02/12] kvm/svm: add helper functions for globalinterrupt flag

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Wed Jul 29 2009 - 09:45:22 EST


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 03:15:11PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> > 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > index 27d26c3..9f69b25 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> > @@ -136,6 +136,21 @@ static inline bool is_nested(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > return svm->nested_vmcb;
> > }
> >
> > +static inline void enable_gif(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > +{
> > + svm->vcpu.arch.hflags |= HF_GIF_MASK;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline void disable_gif(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > +{
> > + svm->vcpu.arch.hflags &= ~HF_GIF_MASK;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static inline bool gif_set(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > +{
> > + return !!(svm->vcpu.arch.hflags & HF_GIF_MASK);
> > +}
> > +
> > static unsigned long iopm_base;
> >
> > struct kvm_ldttss_desc {
> > @@ -630,7 +645,7 @@ static void init_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> > force_new_asid(&svm->vcpu);
> >
> > svm->nested_vmcb = 0;
> > - svm->vcpu.arch.hflags = HF_GIF_MASK;
> > + enable_gif(svm);
> >
>
> Are we sure hflags is always 0 here?

Hmm, yes. Except for the vcpu reset path clear_page is called for before
init_vmcb is called. I'll change it to set hflags to 0 in this function.

Joerg


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