Messages in this thread | | | From | Vitaly Kuznetsov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: remove duplicated KVM_REQ_EVENT request | Date | Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:05:32 +0100 |
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linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> writes:
> Hi: > Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> writes: >> linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com> writes: >>> From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> >>> >>> The KVM_REQ_EVENT request is already made in kvm_set_rflags(). We >>> should not make it again. >>> kvm_rip_write(vcpu, ctxt->eip); >>> kvm_set_rflags(vcpu, ctxt->eflags); >>> - kvm_make_request(KVM_REQ_EVENT, vcpu); >> >> I would've actually done it the other way around and removed >> kvm_make_request() from kvm_set_rflags() as it is not an obvious behavior (e.g. why kvm_rip_write() doens't do that and kvm_set_rflags() does ?) adding kvm_make_request() to all call sites. >> >>In case this looks like too big of a change with no particular gain I'd suggest you at least leave a comment above kvm_set_rflags(), something like >> >>"kvm_make_request() also requests KVM_REQ_EVENT" > > I think adding kvm_make_request() to all call sites is too big without particular gain. And also leave a comment above > kvm_set_rflags() maybe isn't needed as rflags updates is an site that can trigger event injection. Please see commit > (3842d135ff24 KVM: Check for pending events before attempting injection) for detail. > > What do you think?
I don't have a strong opinion on this and your change is correct so feel free to throw my
Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
-- Vitaly
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