From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:17:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48BC1584.4020404@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9444E915-41DE-4266-B810-3E5EE370D1D5@suse.de>
Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>> We can't change struct kvm_sregs, since the structure size is encoded
>> in the ioctl number. We need a new struct and new ioctls. The same
>> was done for mpstate, for example.
>
> Urks - doesn't sounds fast to me.
>
It's only for save/restore, not in any fast path.
>>
>>
>> There's more info needed, btw. Whether the guest is in guest mode or
>> host mode; what the current vmcs is; the value of eflags.if at the
>> time vmrun was executed; and probably more.
>
> Do we really want to support storing the state when within the Level2
> VM? Can't we just #VMEXIT as soon as we switch to userspace or so?
> That would probably simplify things a lot.
>
Great idea. What do we give as the exit reason?
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-01 16:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 11:57 [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add CPUID feature flag for SVM Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 2/9] Clean up VINTR setting Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 4/9] Add helper functions for nested SVM Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow setting the SVME bit Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 6/9] Implement hsave Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:57 ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 8/9] Add VMRUN handler Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 11:58 ` [PATCH 9/9] Add VMEXIT handler and intercepts Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:58 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-02 16:15 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-03 9:23 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-03 9:33 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-03 9:47 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-03 11:55 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] Add VMRUN handler Avi Kivity
2008-09-02 15:38 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:27 ` [PATCH 7/9] Add VMLOAD and VMSAVE handlers Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:14 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:27 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:49 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 13:15 ` [PATCH 6/9] Implement hsave Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:11 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:26 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:21 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:14 ` [PATCH 5/9] Allow setting the SVME bit Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:11 ` [PATCH 3/9] Implement GIF, clgi and stgi Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:02 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:25 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 15:37 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 16:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 16:13 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 16:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-01 16:40 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-02 9:15 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 13:13 ` [PATCH 2/9] Clean up VINTR setting Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 12:09 ` [PATCH 0/9] [RFC] Add support for nested SVM (kernel) Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 12:21 ` Joerg Roedel
2008-09-01 13:41 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-09-01 14:17 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:22 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-01 14:47 ` Alexander Graf
2008-09-01 14:57 ` Avi Kivity
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