Re: [PATCH 7/8] KVM: x86: Allow marking an exception as reinjected

From: Alexander Graf
Date: Fri Apr 23 2010 - 09:57:43 EST



On 22.04.2010, at 12:33, Joerg Roedel wrote:

> This patch adds logic to kvm/x86 which allows to mark an
> injected exception as reinjected. This allows to remove an
> ugly hack from svm_complete_interrupts that prevented
> exceptions from being reinjected at all in the nested case.
> The hack was necessary because an reinjected exception into
> the nested guest could cause a nested vmexit emulation. But
> reinjected exceptions must not intercept. The downside of
> the hack is that a exception that in injected could get
> lost.
> This patch fixes the problem and puts the code for it into
> generic x86 files because. Nested-VMX will likely have the
> same problem and could reuse the code.

So we always handle the reinjection from KVM code? Shouldn't the l1 hypervisor do this?

Alex

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