On 2011-12-07 11:29, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 10/17/2011 06:00 PM, Lai Jiangshan wrote: >> From: Lai Jiangshan <la...@cn.fujitsu.com> >> >> Currently, NMI interrupt is blindly sent to all the vCPUs when NMI >> button event happens. This doesn't properly emulate real hardware on >> which NMI button event triggers LINT1. Because of this, NMI is sent to >> the processor even when LINT1 is maskied in LVT. For example, this >> causes the problem that kdump initiated by NMI sometimes doesn't work >> on KVM, because kdump assumes NMI is masked on CPUs other than CPU0. >> >> With this patch, inject-nmi request is handled as follows. >> >> - When in-kernel irqchip is disabled, deliver LINT1 instead of NMI >> interrupt. >> - When in-kernel irqchip is enabled, get the in-kernel LAPIC states >> and test the APIC_LVT_MASKED, if LINT1 is unmasked, and then >> delivering the NMI directly. (Suggested by Jan Kiszka) >> >> Changed from old version: >> re-implement it by the Jan's suggestion. >> fix the race found by Jan. > > This patch fell through the cracks, sorry. Now applied.
Lai, what is the state of a corresponding QEMU upstream patch? I'd like to build on top of it for my upstream irqchip series. Thanks, Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
