From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnatapov@redhat.com,
jan.kiszka@siemens.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] kvm: nVMX: check vmcs12 for valid activity state
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:22:46 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130416212246.GA21566@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1366030827-5662-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 03:00:27PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> KVM does not use the activity state VMCS field, and does not support
> it in nested VMX either (the corresponding bits in the misc VMX feature
> MSR are zero). Fail entry if the activity state is set to anything but
> "active".
>
> Since the value will always be the same for L1 and L2, we do not need
> to read and write the corresponding VMCS field on L1/L2 transitions,
> either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 13:00 [PATCH v2] kvm: nVMX: check vmcs12 for valid activity state Paolo Bonzini
2013-04-15 13:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2013-04-15 15:10 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-04-16 21:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
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