Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin apic access page in memory.

Tang Chen
2014-07-18T09:05:20Z

Hi Gleb,

On 07/17/2014 09:57 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:34:20PM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
>> Hi Gleb,
>>
>> On 07/15/2014 08:40 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> ......
>>>>
>>>> And yes, we have the problem you said here. We can migrate the page while L2
>>>> vm is running.
>>>> So I think we should enforce L2 vm to exit to L1. Right ?
>>>>
>>> We can request APIC_ACCESS_ADDR reload during L2->L1 vmexit emulation, so
>>> if APIC_ACCESS_ADDR changes while L2 is running it will be reloaded for L1 too.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I think I don't quite understand the procedure you are talking about
>> here.
>>
>> Referring to the code, I think we have three machines: L0(host), L1 and L2.
>> And we have two types of vmexit: L2->L1 and L2->L0. Right ?
>>
>> We are now talking about this case: L2 and L1 shares the apic page.
>>
>> Using patch 5/5, when apic page is migrated on L0, mmu_notifier will notify
>> L1,
>> and update L1's VMCS. At this time, we are in L0, not L2. Why cannot we
> Using patch 5/5, when apic page is migrated on L0, mmu_notifier will notify
> L1 or L2 VMCS depending on which one happens to be running right now.
> If it is L1 then L2's VMCS will be updated during vmentry emulation,

OK, this is easy to understand.

>if it is
> L2 we need to request reload during vmexit emulation to make sure L1's VMCS is
> updated.
>

I'm a little confused here. In patch 5/5, I called
make_all_cpus_request() to
force all vcpus exit to host. If we are in L2, where will the vcpus exit
to ?
L1 or L0 ?

Thanks.