From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
mtosatti@redhat.com, nadav.amit@gmail.com, jan.kiszka@web.de,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1' apic access page on migration in vcpu_enter_guest().
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 15:05:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54119E01.9000908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140911113051.GG25317@minantech.com>
Il 11/09/2014 13:30, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>> > + vmcs_write64(APIC_ACCESS_ADDR, page_to_phys(page));
>> > + /*
>> > + * Do not pin apic access page in memory so that memory
>> > + * hotplug process is able to migrate it.
>> > + */
>> > + put_page(page);
>> > }
> This code is in prepare_vmcs02() and is executed during L1->L2 vmentry. What happens
> when apic access page is migrated while L2 is running? It needs to be update somewhere.
Before it is migrated, the MMU notifier is called and will force a
vmexit on all CPUs. The reload code will call GUP again on the page
again and swap it in.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-11 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-11 5:37 [PATCH v5 0/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page Tang Chen
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] kvm: Use APIC_DEFAULT_PHYS_BASE macro as the apic access page address Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] kvm: Remove ept_identity_pagetable from struct kvm_arch Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] kvm: Make init_rmode_identity_map() return 0 on success Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:17 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 10:26 ` tangchen
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1' apic access page on migration in vcpu_enter_guest() Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 10:12 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11 10:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 11:30 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-09-11 13:59 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11 14:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 14:21 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11 14:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 14:31 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11 14:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 14:47 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-09-12 3:32 ` tangchen
2014-09-12 3:36 ` tangchen
2014-09-11 10:20 ` tangchen
2014-09-11 10:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1's apic access page on migration when L2 is running Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Unpin and remove kvm_arch->apic_access_page Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:34 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 5:38 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Unpin and remove nested_vmx->apic_access_page Tang Chen
2014-09-11 9:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11 9:43 ` tangchen
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