Hi,
On 30/11/17 14:28, Jan Beulich wrote:
On 28.11.17 at 15:05, <[email protected]> wrote:
A call to handle_hvm_io_completion() is needed for completing I/O
that requires external emulation. Such completion should be requested when
hvm_vcpu_io_need_completion() returns true after hvm_emulate_once() has
completed. This is indicative of the underlying I/O emulation having
returned X86EMUL_RETRY and hence a re-emulation of the instruction is
needed to pick up the result of the I/O.
A call to handle_hvm_io_completion() is NOT needed when the underlying
I/O has not returned X86EMUL_RETRY since there will be no result to pick
up. Hence it bogus to request such completion when mmio_retry is set,
since this can only happen if the underlying I/O emulation has returned
X86EMUL_OKAY (meaning the I/O has completed successfully).
Reported-by: Andrew Cooper <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Hmm, I notice Paul didn't Cc you on this one - despite it getting late,
this is still something to be considered for 4.10. It's certainly going
to be a backporting candidate.
Release-acked-by: Julien Grall <[email protected]>
Could this be committed today?
Cheers,
--
Julien Grall
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