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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)"
	<x86@kernel.org>,
	"open list:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" 
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 18:01:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK6M4UwNGn1Gc5Sa@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210426111333.967729-1-mlevitsk@redhat.com>

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This patch set aims to fix few flaws that were discovered
> in KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS on x86:
> 
> * There is no support for reading/writing PDPTRs although
>   these are considered to be part of the guest state.
> 
> * There is useless interrupt bitmap which isn't needed
> 
> * No support for future extensions (via flags and such)
> 
> Also if the user doesn't use the new SREG2 api, the PDPTR
> load after migration is now done on KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES
> to at least read them correctly in cases when guest memory
> map is not up to date when nested state is loaded.
> 
> This patch series was tested by doing nested migration test
> of 32 bit PAE L1 + 32 bit PAE L2 on AMD and Intel and by
> nested migration test of 64 bit L1 + 32 bit PAE L2 on AMD.
> The later test currently fails on Intel (regardless of my patches).
> 
> Changes from V1:
>   - move only PDPTRS load to KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES on VMX
>   - rebase on top of kvm/queue
>   - improve the KVM_GET_SREGS2 to have flag for PDPTRS
>     and remove padding
> 
> Patches to qemu will be send soon as well.

How did you want to handle integration with the removal of pdptrs_changed()?

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/68ff1249-2902-43d5-3dfd-35b1f14c4f90@redhat.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-26 11:13 [PATCH v2 0/6] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] KVM: nSVM: refactor the CR3 reload on migration Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] KVM: nVMX: delay loading of PDPTRs to KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] KVM: x86: introduce kvm_register_clear_available Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] KVM: x86: Introduce KVM_GET_SREGS2 / KVM_SET_SREGS2 Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 12:32   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-26 12:56     ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 13:28       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-04-26 13:31         ` Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] KVM: nSVM: avoid loading PDPTRs after migration when possible Maxim Levitsky
2021-04-26 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: nVMX: " Maxim Levitsky
2021-05-26 18:01 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-05-29 17:49   ` [PATCH v2 0/6] Introduce KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS2 and fix PDPTR migration Maxim Levitsky

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