From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: replace kvm_vcpu_map usage in vmx
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:19:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y9QjquvzoL7kKHWE@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230127044500.680329-1-stevensd@google.com>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, David Stevens wrote:
> From: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
>
> This series replaces the usage of kvm_vcpu_map in vmx with
> gfn_to_pfn_cache. See [1] for details on why kvm_vcpu_map is broken.
>
> The presence of kvm_vcpu_map blocks another series I would like to
> try to merge [2]. Although I'm not familiar with the internals of vmx,
> I've gone ahead and taken a stab at this cleanup. I've done some manual
> testing with nested VMs, and KVM selftests pass, but thorough feedback
> would be appreciated. Once this cleanup is done, I'll take a look at
> removing kvm_vcpu_map from svm.
Woot, been waiting for someone to take this one, thanks! It'll likely be a week
or two until I get 'round to this, but it's definitely something I want to get
merged sooner than later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-27 4:44 [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: replace kvm_vcpu_map usage in vmx David Stevens
2023-01-27 4:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] KVM: Support sharing gpc locks David Stevens
2023-01-28 21:42 ` kernel test robot
2023-01-29 0:46 ` kernel test robot
2023-01-29 10:08 ` David Woodhouse
2023-01-30 5:25 ` [PATCH 4/3] KVM: x86/xen: Make runstate cache gpcs share a lock David Stevens
2023-01-31 16:58 ` David Woodhouse
2023-01-27 4:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] KVM: use gfn=>pfn cache in nested_get_vmcs12_pages David Stevens
2023-01-27 4:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] KVM: use gfn=>pfn cache for evmcs David Stevens
2023-01-27 19:19 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2023-03-06 1:45 ` [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: replace kvm_vcpu_map usage in vmx David Stevens
2023-03-07 16:03 ` Sean Christopherson
2023-03-14 23:33 ` Sean Christopherson
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