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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: "Mao, Junjie" <junjie.mao@intel.com>
Cc: "'kvm@vger.kernel.org'" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] KVM: x86: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:49:48 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FEC7D1C.9030203@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FEC7CFB.5010001@redhat.com>

On 06/28/2012 06:49 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/14/2012 05:04 AM, Mao, Junjie wrote:
>> This patch handles PCID/INVPCID for guests.
>> 
>> Process-context identifiers (PCIDs) are a facility by which a logical processor
>> may cache information for multiple linear-address spaces so that the processor
>> may retain cached information when software switches to a different linear
>> address space. Refer to section 4.10.1 in IA32 Intel Software Developer's Manual
>> Volume 3A for details.
>> 
>> For guests with EPT, the PCID feature is enabled and INVPCID behaves as running
>> natively.
>> For guests without EPT, the PCID feature is disabled and INVPCID triggers #UD.
>> 


Oh, and sorry about the late review.


-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-28 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-06-14  2:04 [PATCH v4] KVM: x86: Implement PCID/INVPCID for guests with EPT Mao, Junjie
2012-06-16  2:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-06-19  8:24   ` Mao, Junjie
2012-06-28 15:49 ` Avi Kivity
2012-06-28 15:49   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-06-29  2:37   ` Mao, Junjie
2012-06-29 14:51     ` Avi Kivity
2012-07-02  0:32       ` Mao, Junjie
2012-07-02  8:59         ` Avi Kivity

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