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From: "Nikunj A. Dadhania" <nikunj@amd.com>
To: "Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@intel.com>,
	"pbonzini@redhat.com" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"seanjc@google.com" <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: "thomas.lendacky@amd.com" <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"joao.m.martins@oracle.com" <joao.m.martins@oracle.com>,
	"santosh.shukla@amd.com" <santosh.shukla@amd.com>,
	"bp@alien8.de" <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:01:11 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80fd025b-fd3b-4cf1-bcab-20d5b403666a@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa0e2f42a505756166f4676220eff553c00efb1e.camel@intel.com>



On 9/16/2025 3:57 PM, Huang, Kai wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 08:59 +0000, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> Move the PML page from VMX-specific vcpu_vmx structure to the common
>> kvm_vcpu_arch structure to share it between VMX and SVM implementations.
>>
>> Update all VMX references accordingly, and simplify the
>> kvm_flush_pml_buffer() interface by removing the page parameter since it
>> can now access the page directly from the vcpu structure.
>>
>> No functional change, restructuring to prepare for SVM PML support.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@amd.com>
> 
> Nit: IMHO it's also better to explain why we only moved the PML buffer
> pointer but not the code which allocates/frees the PML buffer:
> 
>   Move the PML page to x86 common code only without moving the PML page 
>   allocation code, since for AMD the PML buffer must be allocated using
>   snp_safe_alloc_page().

Ack

Regards
Nikunj


  reply	other threads:[~2025-09-17  3:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-15  8:59 [PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-15  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: x86: Carve out PML flush routine Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-15  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: x86: Move PML page to common vcpu arch structure Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-16 10:27   ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-17  3:31     ` Nikunj A. Dadhania [this message]
2025-09-17 10:13       ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-17 10:17         ` Nikunj A. Dadhania
2025-09-17 10:28           ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-15  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] x86/cpufeatures: Add Page modification logging Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-15  8:59 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: SVM: Add Page modification logging support Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-15 12:35   ` Huang, Kai
2025-09-18  6:12     ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2025-09-24  6:26       ` Nikunj A Dadhania

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