Re: [PATCH v9 05/22] KVM: s390: vsie: simulate VCPU SIE entry/exit

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:48:02 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> VCPU requests and VCPU blocking right now don't take care of the vSIE
> (as it was not necessary until now). But we want to have VCPU requests
> that will also be handled before running the vSIE again.
> 
> So let's simulate a SIE entry when entering the vSIE loop and check
> for PROG_ flags. The existing infrastructure (e.g. exit_sie()) will then
> detect that the SIE (in form of the vSIE execution loop) is running and
> properly kick the vSIE CPU, resulting in it leaving the vSIE loop and
> therefore the vSIE interception handler, allowing it to handle VCPU
> requests.
> 
> E.g. if we want to modify the crycb of the VCPU and make sure that any
> masks also get applied to the VSIE crycb shadow (which uses masks from the
> VCPU crycb), we will need a way to hinder the vSIE from running and make
> sure to process the updated crycb before reentering the vSIE again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pierre Morel <pmorel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.h |    1 +
>  arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c     |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

I think that is the RFC version of David's patch, not the v1? Again,
not really relevant for reviewing, but I hope that you test the final
version.