Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/22] x86/kvm: Don't call kvm_spurious_fault() from .fixup | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Mon, 15 Jul 2019 20:16:43 +0200 |
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On 15/07/19 15:25, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:05:33PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 15/07/19 14:40, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: >>>>> * Hardware virtualization extension instructions may fault if a >>>>> * reboot turns off virtualization while processes are running. >>>>> - * Trap the fault and ignore the instruction if that happens. >>>>> + * If that happens, trap the fault and panic (unless we're rebooting). >>>> Not sure the comment is better than before, but apar from that >>> The previous comment didn't seem to match the code, since we only ignore >>> the instruction if we're rebooting. >>> >> >> "If that happens" refers to "a reboot turns off virtualization while >> processes are running". > > Ah, makes sense now. I was reading "if that happens" to mean the fault. > >> * Usually after catching the fault we just panic; during reboot >> * instead the instruction is ignored. > > Yes, that's much clearer. Assuming you meant to replace the entire > comment.
No, I didn't. :) I meant only the last line (otherwise it removes information on why the fault may happen and the simplest choice is to ignore). Thanks for taking care of this!
Paolo
I also moved it to directly above the macro it's describing: > > > asmlinkage void __noreturn kvm_spurious_fault(void); > > /* > * Usually after catching the fault we just panic; during reboot > * instead the instruction is ignored. > */ > #define ____kvm_handle_fault_on_reboot(insn, cleanup_insn) \ > >
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