[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 07/15] kvm: Separate TCG from KVM cpu execution

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2011-02-09 00:39, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:19:18PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Mixing up TCG bits with KVM already led to problems around eflags
>> emulation on x86. Moreover, quite some code that TCG requires on cpu
>> enty/exit is useless for KVM. So dispatch between tcg_cpu_exec and
>> kvm_cpu_exec as early as possible.
>>
>> The core logic of cpu_halted from cpu_exec is added to
>> kvm_arch_process_irqchip_events. Moving away from cpu_exec makes
>> exception_index meaningless for KVM, we can simply pass the exit reason
>> directly (only "EXCP_DEBUG vs. rest" is relevant).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  cpu-exec.c        |   19 ++++++-------------
>>  cpus.c            |   10 +++++-----
>>  kvm-all.c         |   19 +++++++++----------
>>  target-i386/kvm.c |    6 +++---
>>  4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/target-i386/kvm.c b/target-i386/kvm.c
>> index ba183c4..377a0a3 100644
>> --- a/target-i386/kvm.c
>> +++ b/target-i386/kvm.c
>> @@ -1502,12 +1502,13 @@ int kvm_arch_post_run(CPUState *env, struct kvm_run 
>> *run)
>>  
>>  int kvm_arch_process_irqchip_events(CPUState *env)
>>  {
>> +    if (env->interrupt_request & (CPU_INTERRUPT_HARD | CPU_INTERRUPT_NMI)) {
>> +        env->halted = 0;
>> +    }
> 
> Why is it necessary to clear env->halted here?

Because we no longer come along cpu_halted() in cpu_exec(). This
corresponds to the tail of process_irqchip_events() in qemu-kvm

Jan

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