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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
To: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
	isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com, guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page.
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 09:04:10 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140703060409.GL18167@minantech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53B4AF47.1080008@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 09:17:59AM +0800, Tang Chen wrote:
> Hi Gleb,
> 
> On 07/02/2014 05:00 PM, Tang Chen wrote:
> >Hi Gleb, Marcelo,
> >
> >Please help to review this patch-set.
> >
> >NOTE: This patch-set doesn't work properly.
> >
> >
> >ept identity pagetable and apic access page in kvm are pinned in memory.
> >As a result, they cannot be migrated/hot-removed.
> >
> >But actually they don't need to be pinned in memory.
> >
> >This patch-set introduces two new vcpu requests: KVM_REQ_MIGRATE_EPT and KVM_REQ_MIGRATE_APIC.
> >These two requests are made when the two pages are migrated by the mmu_notifier
> >to reset the related variable to unusable value. And will also be made when
> >ept violation happens to reset new pages.
> >
> >
> >[Known problem]
> >After this patch-set applied, the two pages can be migrated/hot-removed.
> >But after migrating apic access page, the guest died.
> >
> >The host physical address of apic access page is stored in VMCS. I reset
> >it to 0 to stop guest from accessing it when it is unmapped by
> >kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_page(). And reset it to new page's host physical
> >address in tdp_page_fault(). But it seems that guest will access apic page
> >directly by the host physical address.
> 
> Would you please to give some advice about this problem ?
> 
I haven't reviewed third patch yet, will do ASAP.

--
			Gleb.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-03  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-02  9:00 [PATCH 0/4] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page Tang Chen
2014-07-02  9:00 ` [PATCH 1/4] kvm: Add gfn_to_page_no_pin() Tang Chen
2014-07-02  9:00 ` [PATCH 2/4] kvm: Add macro VMX_APIC_ACCESS_PAGE_ADDR Tang Chen
2014-07-02 16:24   ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-03  1:19     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-02  9:00 ` [PATCH 3/4] kvm, memory-hotplug: Update ept identity pagetable when it is migrated Tang Chen
2014-07-02 16:34   ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-03  1:19     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-04  2:36     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-04  9:49       ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-02  9:00 ` [PATCH 4/4] kvm, mem-hotplug: Update apic access page " Tang Chen
2014-07-03 13:55   ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-04  2:18     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-04  2:18     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-04 10:13       ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-07  6:17         ` Tang Chen
2014-07-07  9:52         ` Tang Chen
2014-07-07 11:42           ` Nadav Amit
2014-07-07 11:54             ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-07 12:10               ` Nadav Amit
2014-07-07 12:15                 ` Gleb Natapov
2014-07-08  1:44                 ` Tang Chen
2014-07-08  6:46                   ` Nadav Amit
2014-07-07 10:35   ` Wanpeng Li
2014-07-08  9:40     ` Tang Chen
2014-07-03  1:17 ` [PATCH 0/4] kvm, mem-hotplug: Do not pin ept identity pagetable and apic access page Tang Chen
2014-07-03  6:04   ` Gleb Natapov [this message]
2014-07-04  6:41     ` Tang Chen
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2014-07-02  9:00 Tang Chen

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