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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
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	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_SREGS2 / KVM_SET_SREGS2
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 19:33:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <514c1f1f-5c7d-7b27-b893-87d9b85db523@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b3a93e3d1ba6a89da327b93be2ecf47f22010d4.camel@redhat.com>

On 01/04/21 19:10, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> I haven't yet studied in depth the locking that is used in the kvm,
> so I put this to be on the safe side.
> 
> I looked at it a bit and it looks like the pdptr reading code takes
> this lock because it accesses the memslots, which is not done here,
> and therefore the lock is indeed not needed here.
> 
> I need to study in depth how locking is done in kvm to be 100% sure
> about this.

Yes, SRCU protects reading the memslots (and therefore accessing guest 
memory).

>> 195, not 196.
> 
> I am also planning to add KVM_CAP_SET_GUEST_DEBUG2 for which I
> used 195.

Sounds good then.

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-01 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-01 14:18 [PATCH 0/6] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: nVMX: delay loading of PDPTRs to KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-02 17:27   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-06 10:22     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: nSVM: call nested_svm_load_cr3 on nested state load Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86: introduce kvm_register_clear_available Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:31   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-05 17:03   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_SREGS2 / KVM_SET_SREGS2 Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:44   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-01 17:10     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 17:33       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: nSVM: avoid loading PDPTRs after migration when possible Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-05 17:01   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-04-06 10:12     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-01 14:18 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: nVMX: " Maxim Levitsky

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