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From: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@citrix.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: "Kevin Tian" <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	"Stefano Stabellini" <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
	"Julien Grall" <julien@xen.org>, "Wei Liu" <wl@xen.org>,
	"Andrew Cooper" <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"Michał Leszczyński" <michal.leszczynski@cert.pl>,
	"Ian Jackson" <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	"George Dunlap" <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	"Kang, Luwei" <luwei.kang@intel.com>,
	"Jun Nakajima" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"Tamas K Lengyel" <tamas.k.lengyel@gmail.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/vmx: add do_vmtrace_op
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 18:25:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200622162237.GN735@Air-de-Roger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b7dd58f-2dc1-32bc-3add-d896631734a4@suse.com>

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 06:16:57PM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 22.06.2020 18:02, Michał Leszczyński wrote:
> > ----- 22 cze 2020 o 17:22, Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com napisał(a):
> >> On 22.06.2020 16:35, Michał Leszczyński wrote:
> >>> ----- 22 cze 2020 o 15:25, Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com napisał(a):
> > It's also not "many gigabytes". In most use cases a buffer of 16/32/64 MB
> > would suffice, I think.
> 
> But that one such buffer per vCPU, isn't it? Plus these buffers
> need to be physically contiguous, which is an additional possibly
> severe constraint.

FTR, from my reading of the SDM you can use a mode called ToPA where
the buffer is some kind of linked list of tables that map to output
regions. That would be nice, but IMO it should be implemented in a
next iteration after the basic support is in.

Roger.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-22 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-18 23:34 [PATCH v2 0/7] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 23:38 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] xen/mm: lift 32 item limit from mfn/gfn arrays Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 11:34   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-19 11:36     ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 11:48       ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-19 11:51         ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 12:35     ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 12:39       ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22  3:00         ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 23:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] x86/vmx: add Intel PT MSR definitions Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22 12:35   ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 23:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] x86/vmx: add IPT cpu feature Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 13:44   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-19 14:22     ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 15:31       ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-22  2:49     ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22  8:31       ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22 12:40   ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 23:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] x86/vmx: add do_vmtrace_op Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19  0:46   ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-19 15:30   ` Roger Pau Monné
2020-06-19 15:50     ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22  2:45       ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22  2:56   ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22  8:39     ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22 13:25   ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22 14:35     ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22 15:22       ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22 16:02         ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22 16:16           ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-22 16:22             ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22 16:25             ` Roger Pau Monné [this message]
2020-06-22 16:33               ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-23  1:04             ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-23  8:51               ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-23 17:24                 ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-24 10:03                   ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-24 12:40                     ` Andrew Cooper
2020-06-24 12:52                       ` Tamas K Lengyel
2020-06-24 12:23                   ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-22 17:05           ` Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-23  8:49             ` Jan Beulich
2020-06-18 23:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] tools/libxc: add xc_vmtrace_* functions Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 23:42 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] tools/libxl: add vmtrace_pt_size parameter Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 23:42 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] tools/proctrace: add proctrace tool Michał Leszczyński
2020-06-18 23:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Implement support for external IPT monitoring Michał Leszczyński

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