[PATCH v6] KVM: arm/arm64: Route vtimer events to user space

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Fri Sep 23 05:11:41 PDT 2016



On 23/09/2016 13:07, Alexander Graf wrote:
> +		timer_ret = kvm_timer_sync_hwstate(vcpu);
>  
>  		kvm_vgic_sync_hwstate(vcpu);
>  
>  		preempt_enable();
>  
>  		ret = handle_exit(vcpu, run, ret);
> +
> +		if ((ret == 1) && timer_ret) {
> +			/*
> +			 * We have to exit straight away to ensure that we only
> +			 * ever notify user space once about a level change
> +			 */

Is this really a requirement?  It complicates the logic noticeably.

Paolo

> +			ret = -EINTR;
> +			run->exit_reason = KVM_EXIT_INTR;
> +		}
>  	}



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