We need to make sure that the timer interrupt happens before we clear
PF_VCPU, so the accounting code actually sees guest mode.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/15/114
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
kvm_x86_ops->run(vcpu, kvm_run);
- kvm_guest_exit();
vcpu->guest_mode = 0;
local_irq_enable();
++vcpu->stat.exits;
+ /*
+ * We must have an instruction between local_irq_enable() and
+ * kvm_guest_exit(), so the timer interrupt isn't delayed by
+ * the interrupt shadow. The stat.exits increment will do nicely.
+ * But we need to prevent reordering, hence this barrier():
+ */
+ barrier();
+
+ kvm_guest_exit();
+
preempt_enable();
/*