From: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/12] Nested SVM cleanups
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:09:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090729130944.GE18313@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A70492E.2080705@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:05:50PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/29/2009 03:56 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >here is a first round of patches to clean up the code for SVM virtualization
> >for KVM on AMD. There is more to clean up but since I am on vacation the rest
> >of the week here is what I have queued up so far. Maybe this saves me from
> >rebasing this code next week ;-)
> >I tested these patches with KVM in KVM and it works stable with and without
> >nested SMP. It doesn't seem to break anything.
> >
>
> I seem to recall nested smp used to be broken. Am I mistaken, or do
> these patches fix rather than clean up?
Nested SMP was broken in one of the early version of the nested SVM
code. In the current upstream version it works quite well.
>
> > kvm/svm: make nested svm debugging runtime configurable
>
> Should be migrated to tracepoints.
Ok, I tried to align debugging to the mmu debugging code. But
tracepoints are better of course.
Joerg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-29 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-29 12:56 [PATCH 0/12] Nested SVM cleanups Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 01/12] kvm/svm: make nested svm debugging runtime configurable Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:22 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 02/12] kvm/svm: add helper functions for global interrupt flag Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:15 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 13:44 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 03/12] kvm/svm: optimize nested #vmexit Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:23 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 04/12] kvm/svm: optimize nested vmrun Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:27 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 05/12] kvm/svm: copy only necessary parts of the control area on vmrun/vmexit Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:30 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 13:47 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:48 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 06/12] kvm/svm: complete interrupts after handling nested exits Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:46 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 07/12] kvm/svm: move nested svm state into seperate struct Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:49 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 08/12] kvm/svm: cache nested intercepts Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:13 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:13 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:26 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:47 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:50 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 13:52 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 09/12] kvm/svm: consolidate nested_svm_exit_handled Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:56 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 10/12] kvm/svm: do nested vmexit in nested_svm_exit_handled Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 14:15 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 11/12] kvm/svm: handle #pf intercepts in nested_svm_exit_handled directly Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 14:20 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 14:44 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 14:41 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 14:49 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 14:46 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 12:56 ` [PATCH 12/12] kvm/svm: simplify nested_svm_check_exception Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 14:21 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 13:05 ` [PATCH 0/12] Nested SVM cleanups Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:09 ` Joerg Roedel [this message]
2009-07-29 13:31 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:29 ` Alexander Graf
2009-07-29 13:38 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:48 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:48 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 13:59 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:58 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-07-29 14:07 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 13:06 ` Avi Kivity
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