Re: [PATCH 6/6] kvm: qemu: Enable EPT support for real mode

["Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>]

On Thursday 24 April 2008 15:37:53 Avi Kivity wrote:
> Yang, Sheng wrote:
> >> Why not use ept_identity_pagetable != NULL to encode
> >> ept_identity_pagetable_done?
> >
> > ept_identity_pagetable_done was used to indicate if the pagetable was
> > setted up, and ept_identity_pagetable was used to indicate if the page
> > used for pagetable was allocated... I don't want to run
> > alloc_identity_pagetable() again and again and again... Another method is
> > read several bits at the front of page to tell if the pagetable was
> > setted up, but somehow tricky...
>
> No, better to avoid tricks.  But rmode_tss is only allocated once, so if
> you unify the allocations, the identity table will also only be
> allocated once.

But set_tss_addr() is a x86_ops, if the identity mapping allocation using the 
same approach, another null function should be added into SVM side, but this 
thing is VMX specific one...

-- 
Thanks
Yang, Sheng

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