Re: [PATCH 4/7] KVM: SVM: Use seperate VMCB for L2 guests

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/13/2011 06:32 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel<joro@8bytes.org>
>
> Move torwards emulation of VMCB-clean-bits by using a
> seperate VMCB when running L2 guests.
>
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index f81e35e..6dacf59 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ struct nested_state {
>
>   	/* Nested Paging related state */
>   	u64 nested_cr3;
> +
> +	struct vmcb *n_vmcb;
>   };
>
>   #define MSRPM_OFFSETS	16
> @@ -974,6 +976,26 @@ static u64 svm_compute_tsc_offset(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u64 target_tsc)
>   	return target_tsc - tsc;
>   }
>
> +static bool init_nested_vmcb(struct vcpu_svm *svm)
> +{
> +	struct vmcb_control_area *hc, *nc;
> +
> +	svm->nested.n_vmcb = (void *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (svm->nested.n_vmcb == NULL)
> +		return false;
> +
> +	nc =&svm->nested.n_vmcb->control;
> +	hc =&svm->host_vmcb->control;
> +
> +	nc->iopm_base_pa		= hc->iopm_base_pa;
> +	nc->msrpm_base_pa		= hc->msrpm_base_pa;
> +	nc->nested_ctl			= hc->nested_ctl;
> +	nc->pause_filter_count		= hc->pause_filter_count;
> +	svm->nested.n_vmcb->save.g_pat	= svm->host_vmcb->save.g_pat;
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +

Instead of initializing the non-nested vmcb and then copying it, 
separate out the bits you're copying here into a separate function (i.e. 
init_vmcb_host_state()) and call it for both vmcbs.

I had practically the same comment for nvmx (see 
vmx_set_constant_host_state()).

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