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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Hu Yaohui <loki2441@gmail.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Nested EPT Write Protection
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2015 08:27:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5583B63B.1080907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHqbYQvzU=U=SrNeip_zjWkQAdu2Sfwd1nPfYuJ012xPUrTKdw@mail.gmail.com>



On 19/06/2015 03:52, Hu Yaohui wrote:
> Hi All,
> In kernel 3.14.2, the kvm uses shadow EPT(EPT02) to implement the
> nested EPT. The shadow EPT(EPT02) is a shadow of guest EPT (EPT12). If
> the L1 guest writes to the guest EPT(EPT12). How can the shadow
> EPT(EPT02) be modified according?

Because the EPT02 is write protected, writes to the EPT12 will trap to
the hypervisor.  The hypervisor will execute the write instruction
before reentering the guest and invalidate the modified parts of the
EPT02.  When the invalidated part of the EPT02 is accessed, the
hypervisor will rebuild it according to the EPT12 and the KVM memslots.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-19  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-19  1:52 Nested EPT Write Protection Hu Yaohui
2015-06-19  6:27 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-06-19 12:44   ` Hu Yaohui
2015-06-19 15:23     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-19 18:57       ` Hu Yaohui
2015-06-22 11:26         ` Paolo Bonzini
     [not found]           ` <CAHqbYQsXfmQfBGva2t_VSFMQj3dnwUUcFPBbvnQDN_tR0y3i8g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-22 13:59             ` Paolo Bonzini

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