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From: | Paolo Bonzini |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] kvm/x86: Hyper-V kvm exit |
Date: | Fri, 9 Oct 2015 16:57:33 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 |
On 09/10/2015 16:53, Roman Kagan wrote: >> > Why is this exit necessary? > The guest writes to synic-related MSRs and that should take "immediate" > effect. > > E.g. it may decide to disable or relocate the message page by writing to > SIMP MSR. The host is then supposed to stop accessing the old message > page before the vCPU proceeds to the next instruction. Hence the exit, > to allow the userspace to react accordingly before reentering the guest. Ok, thanks! Paolo
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