Re: [RFC patch 00/15] entry: Provide generic implementation for host and guest entry/exit work

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:09 AM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When working on a way to move out the posix cpu timer expiry out of the
> timer interrupt context, I noticed that KVM is not handling pending task
> work before entering a guest. A quick hack was to add that to the x86 KVM
> handling loop. The discussion ended with a request to make this a generic
> infrastructure possible with also moving the per arch implementations of
> the enter from and return to user space handling generic.
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/r/89E42BCC-47A8-458B-B06A-D6A20D20512C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> You asked for it, so don't complain that you have to review it :)
>
> The series implements the syscall enter/exit and the general exit to
> userspace work handling along with the pre guest enter functionality.
>
> The series converts x86 and ARM64. x86 is fully tested including selftests
> etc. ARM64 is only compile tested for now as my only ARM64 testbox is not
> available right now.

Other than the comments I sent so far, I like this series.