Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 8/9] KVM: MMU: Enable Lazy mode SPPT setup

Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-09T17:10:27Z

On 04/09/19 15:49, Yang Weijiang wrote:
>>> This would not enable SPP if the guest is backed by huge pages.
>>> Instead, either the PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL level must be forced for all
>>> pages covered by SPP ranges, or (better) kvm_enable_spp_protection must
>>> be able to cover multiple pages at once.
>>>
>>> Paolo
>> OK, I'll figure out how to make it, thanks!
> Hi, Paolo,
> Regarding this change, I have some concerns, splitting EPT huge page
> entries(e.g., 1GB page)will take long time compared with normal EPT page
> fault processing, especially for multiple vcpus/pages,so the in-flight time increases,
> but HW walks EPT for translations in the meantime, would it bring any side effect?
> or there's a way to mitigate it?

Sub-page permissions are only defined on EPT PTEs, not on large pages.
Therefore, in order to allow subpage permissions the EPT page tables
must already be split.

Paolo