Re: [PATCH v2 35/43] KVM: SVM: Signal AVIC doorbell iff vCPU is in guest mode

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/10/21 04:12, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +	 */
> +	if (vcpu->mode == IN_GUEST_MODE) {
>   		int cpu = READ_ONCE(vcpu->cpu);
>   
>   		/*
> @@ -687,8 +692,13 @@ int svm_deliver_avic_intr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int vec)
>   		if (cpu != get_cpu())
>   			wrmsrl(SVM_AVIC_DOORBELL, kvm_cpu_get_apicid(cpu));
>   		put_cpu();
> -	} else
> +	} else {
> +		/*
> +		 * Wake the vCPU if it was blocking.  KVM will then detect the
> +		 * pending IRQ when checking if the vCPU has a wake event.
> +		 */
>   		kvm_vcpu_wake_up(vcpu);
> +	}
>   

Does this still need to check the "running" flag?  That should be a 
strict superset of vcpu->mode == IN_GUEST_MODE.

Paolo