Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] kvm: Handle undercommitted guest case in PLEhandler

[Avi Kivity]

On 09/24/2012 06:14 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:06 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> 
>> We would probably need a ->sched_exit() preempt notifier to make this
>> work.  Peter, I know how much you love those, would it be acceptable? 
> 
> Where exactly do you want this? TASK_DEAD? or another exit?

TASK_DEAD of the task that registered the preempt notifier.

The idea is that I want to hold on to the notifier even when exiting to
userspace.  Since userspace is under no obligation to call kvm again, I
need a chance to unregister the notifier and otherwise clean up.

Eh, looking at the code, we'll have a ->sched_out() after the state is
set to TASK_DEAD.  So all we need to do is examine the state.  We'll
need to examine the state anyway to see if we were preempted or blocking.

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