Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] SVM cleanup and INVPCID support for the AMD guests

Jim Mattson
2020-07-29T00:10:02Z

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 4:37 PM Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> wrote:
>
> The following series adds the support for PCID/INVPCID on AMD guests.
> While doing it re-structured the vmcb_control_area data structure to
> combine all the intercept vectors into one 32 bit array. Makes it easy
> for future additions.
>
> INVPCID interceptions are added only when the guest is running with
> shadow page table enabled. In this case the hypervisor needs to handle
> the tlbflush based on the type of invpcid instruction.
>
> For the guests with nested page table (NPT) support, the INVPCID feature
> works as running it natively. KVM does not need to do any special handling.
>
> AMD documentation for INVPCID feature is available at "AMD64 Architecture
> Programmer’s Manual Volume 2: System Programming, Pub. 24593 Rev. 3.34(or later)"
>
> The documentation can be obtained at the links below:
> Link: https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/24593.pdf
> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206537

Very nice cleanup. Thanks for doing this!