[PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: x86: Fold kvm_arch_sched_in() into kvm_arch_vcpu_load()
Sean Christopherson
seanjc at google.com
Wed May 29 05:54:18 PDT 2024
On Wed, May 29, 2024, Kai Huang wrote:
> I am not familiar with SVM, but it seems the relevant parts are:
>
> control->pause_filter_count;
> vmcb_mark_dirty(svm->vmcb, VMCB_INTERCEPTS);
>
> And it seems they are directly related to programming the hardware, i.e.,
> they got automatically loaded to hardware during VMRUN.
"control" is the control area of the VMCB, i.e. the above pause_filter_count is
equivalent to a VMCS field.
> They need to be updated in the SVM specific code when @ple_window_dirty is
> true in the relevant code path.
>
> Anyway, even it is feasible and worth to do, we should do in a separate
> patchset.
Ya.
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