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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
	George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>,
	Jun Nakajima <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/2] x86/ept: invalidate guest physical mappings on VMENTER
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:41:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <566ED527.8020007@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZb=Zpp775pt3g-ZSMig+GsB_QJ7e97-mumzYacxqP1VKA@mail.gmail.com>

On 07/12/15 10:25, George Dunlap wrote:
> 
> I took the past tense ("synced") to mean, "These CPUs have been
> brought into sync (or are no longer out of sync)".  So they start out
> not-synced, so you initialize the bit to be clear; when an INVEPT is
> executed, they become synced, so you set the bit; and when you change
> the EPT tables, they are no longer synced so you clear the bit.

It didn't work like that though.  I have retained the changed name and
meaning.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-03 16:42 [PATCHv3 0/2] x86/ept: reduce translation invalidation impact David Vrabel
2015-12-03 16:42 ` [PATCHv3 1/2] x86/ept: invalidate guest physical mappings on VMENTER David Vrabel
2015-12-04 11:00   ` George Dunlap
2015-12-04 13:39     ` David Vrabel
2015-12-07 10:25       ` George Dunlap
2015-12-14 14:41         ` David Vrabel [this message]
2015-12-16 16:04           ` George Dunlap
2015-12-03 16:42 ` [PATCHv3 2/2] x86/ept: defer the invalidation until the p2m lock is released David Vrabel
2015-12-04 11:51   ` George Dunlap

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