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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Paul Burton" <paul.burton@imgtec.com>,
	"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	linux-mips@linux-mips.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: KVM/locore.S: Don't preserve host ASID around vcpu_run
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 16:22:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57309D29.6010903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1462541784-22128-2-git-send-email-james.hogan@imgtec.com>



On 06/05/2016 15:36, James Hogan wrote:
> - It is actually redundant, since the host ASID will be restored
>   correctly by kvm_arch_vcpu_put(), which is called almost immediately
>   after kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run() returns.

What happens if the guest does a rogue access to the area where the host
kernel resides?  Would that cause a wrong entry in the TLB?

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-09 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-06 13:36 [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Add extended ASID support James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 1/7] MIPS: KVM/locore.S: Don't preserve host ASID around vcpu_run James Hogan
2016-05-09 14:22   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2016-05-09 15:30     ` Ralf Baechle
2016-05-09 19:42       ` James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 2/7] MIPS: Add & use CP0_EntryHi ASID definitions James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 3/7] MIPS: KVM: Abstract guest ASID mask James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 4/7] MIPS: KVM/locore.S: Only preserve callee saved registers James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 5/7] MIPS: KVM/locore.S: Relax noat James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 6/7] MIPS: Retrieve ASID masks using function accepting struct cpuinfo_mips James Hogan
2016-05-06 13:36 ` [PATCH 7/7] MIPS: Support extended ASIDs James Hogan
2016-05-09 13:23 ` [PATCH 0/7] MIPS: Add extended ASID support Ralf Baechle
2016-05-09 17:01   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-05-09 19:04     ` James Hogan
2016-05-09 19:56       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2016-05-09 19:59         ` James Hogan
2016-05-10  7:34         ` Ralf Baechle
2016-05-10  8:55           ` Maciej W. Rozycki

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