[PATCH v3 2/4] KVM: arm64: Add helper vgic_write_guest_lock()

Zenghui Yu zenghui.yu at linux.dev
Fri Jan 27 07:57:40 PST 2023


[ just coming back from holiday, sorry for the late reply ]

On 2023/1/27 07:54, Gavin Shan wrote:
> Currently, the unknown no-running-vcpu sites are reported when a
> dirty page is tracked by mark_page_dirty_in_slot(). Until now, the
> only known no-running-vcpu site is saving vgic/its tables through
> KVM_DEV_ARM_{VGIC_GRP_CTRL, ITS_SAVE_TABLES} command on KVM device
> "kvm-arm-vgic-its". Unfortunately, there are more unknown sites to
> be handled and no-running-vcpu context will be allowed in these
> sites: (1) KVM_DEV_ARM_{VGIC_GRP_CTRL, ITS_RESTORE_TABLES} command
> on KVM device "kvm-arm-vgic-its" to restore vgic/its tables. The
> vgic3 LPI pending status could be restored. (2) Save vgic3 pending

We typically write it as "VGICv3".

> table through KVM_DEV_ARM_{VGIC_GRP_CTRL, VGIC_SAVE_PENDING_TABLES}
> command on KVM device "kvm-arm-vgic-v3".
> 
> In order to handle those unknown cases, we need a unified helper
> vgic_write_guest_lock(). struct vgic_dist::save_its_tables_in_progress
> is also renamed to struct vgic_dist::save_tables_in_progress.

How about renaming it to 'write_tables_in_progress' which would look a
bit more generic? The rest looks good to me.

Thanks,
Zenghui



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