Re: [PATCH V12 3/5] kvm : Fold pv_unhalt flag into GET_MP_STATE ioctlto aid migration

From: Eric Northup
Date: Tue Aug 06 2013 - 14:32:10 EST


On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Raghavendra K T
<raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> kvm : Fold pv_unhalt flag into GET_MP_STATE ioctl to aid migration
>
> From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> During migration, any vcpu that got kicked but did not become runnable
> (still in halted state) should be runnable after migration.

If this is about migration correctness, could it get folded into the
previous patch 2/5, so that there's not a broken commit which could
hurt bisection?

>
> Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index dae4575..1e73dab 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6284,7 +6284,12 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_get_mpstate(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
> struct kvm_mp_state *mp_state)
> {
> kvm_apic_accept_events(vcpu);
> - mp_state->mp_state = vcpu->arch.mp_state;
> + if (vcpu->arch.mp_state == KVM_MP_STATE_HALTED &&
> + vcpu->arch.pv.pv_unhalted)
> + mp_state->mp_state = KVM_MP_STATE_RUNNABLE;
> + else
> + mp_state->mp_state = vcpu->arch.mp_state;
> +
> return 0;
> }
>
>
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