[PATCH v2 0/5] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page.

Tang Chen
2014-07-08T13:01:27Z

ept identity pagetable and apic access page in kvm are pinned in memory.
As a result, they cannot be migrated/hot-removed.

But actually they don't need to be pinned in memory.

[For ept identity page]
Just do not pin it. When it is migrated, guest will be able to find the
new page in the next ept violation.

[For apic access page]
The hpa of apic access page is stored in VMCS APIC_ACCESS_ADDR pointer.
When apic access page is migrated, we update VMCS APIC_ACCESS_ADDR pointer
for each vcpu in addition.

Change log v1 -> v2:
1. Add [PATCH 4/5] to remove unnecessary kvm_arch->ept_identity_pagetable.
2. In [PATCH 3/5], only introduce KVM_REQ_APIC_PAGE_RELOAD request.
3. In [PATCH 3/5], add set_apic_access_page_addr() for svm.

Tang Chen (5):
kvm: Add gfn_to_page_no_pin() to translate gfn to page without
pinning.
kvm: Use APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE macro as the apic access page address.
kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable in memory.
kvm: Remove ept_identity_pagetable from struct kvm_arch.
kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin apic access page in memory.

arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 11 +++++++++++
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c | 9 ++++++++-
arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 +++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
7 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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