Re: [PATCH v10 33/38] x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Sep 20 2023 - 13:55:49 EST


On 9/14/23 06:48, Xin Li wrote:
+ /*
+ * Don't check the FRED stack level, the call stack leading to this
+ * helper is effectively constant and shallow (relatively speaking).

It's more that we don't need to protect from reentrancy. The external interrupt uses stack level 0 so no adjustment would be needed anyway, and NMI does not use an IST even in the non-FRED case.

+ * Emulate the FRED-defined redzone and stack alignment.
+ */
+ sub $(FRED_CONFIG_REDZONE_AMOUNT << 6), %rsp
+ and $FRED_STACK_FRAME_RSP_MASK, %rsp