On 11/01/2011 02:51 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 10/31/2011 03:07 PM, Eric B Munson wrote:
The KVM_GUEST_PAUSED flag will prevent a guest from compaining about a soft
lockup but it can mask real soft lockups if the flag isn't cleared when it is
no longer relevant. This patch adds a kvm ioctl that the hypervisor will use
when it resumes a guest to start a timer for aging out the flag. The time out
will be specified by the hypervisor in the ioctl call.
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson<emun...@mgebm.net>
Why not have the guest clear the flag when it acknowledges it?
The hypervisor would unconditionally set the bit, and the guest
would do a testandclear to check if the bit is set. I think that
avoids the whole aging business.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
If you have a look at patch 5 of this series, the flag is cleared when the
guest checks the validity of a soft lockup. However, the aging is meant to
cover the case where the guest never sees a soft lockup. We don't want this
flag to be stored for ever and end up delaying real soft lockup messages. With
that case in mind, I thought this was a good/simple compramise.
If the guest clears the flag, then I don't think you have to worry about this.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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