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[xjtudso]

How does xen intercept the phyical INTR

Hi, guys.

In XEN VMM, when running a guest with SVM support, the vmm excutes clgi to mask the interrupt and excutes stgi when guest exit.(in the code arch/x86/hvm/Svm/entry.S)

So, when the guest is running, the physical interrupt is masked. How can xen catch the INTR signal when the physical interrupt dispached during the excution of the guest?

Thanks.

[ozone]

GIF is implicitly cleared (interrupts are unmasked) by vmrun and implicitly set with #VMEXIT.

AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming, 15.5.1, Loading Guest State, p. 450:

After all guest state is loaded, and intercepts and other control bits are set up, the processor reenables interrupts by setting GIF to 1

AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volume 2: System Programming, 15.6, #VMEXIT, p. 452:

Disables interrupts by clearing the GIF, so that after the #VMEXIT, VMM software can complete the state switch atomically.

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