Re: [PATCH v5 4/7] kvm, mem-hotplug: Reload L1' apic access page on migration in vcpu_enter_guest().

Gleb Natapov
2014-09-11T14:21:40Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 04:06:58PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 11/09/2014 15:59, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> >
> > Suppose vmcs01->APIC_ACCESS_ADDR = 0xf000. During L2 entry
> > vmcs02->APIC_ACCESS_ADDR is set to 0xf000 too (by prepare_vmcs02). Now
> > 0xf000 is migrated to 0x8000, mmu notifier is called, it forces vmexit,
> > but vcpu is in a guest mode so vmcs02->APIC_ACCESS_ADDR is never updated
> > to 0x8000 because of "if (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))" check. So what am I
> > missing here?
>
> Right, guest mode isn't left as soon as you execute nested_vmx_vmexit,
> because this isn't an L2->L1 exit. So we need an "else" for that "if
> (!is_guest_mode(vcpu))", in which case the hpa is ignored and
> vmcs12->apic_access_addr is used instead?
>
As far as I can tell the if that is needed there is:

if (!is_guest_mode() || !(vmcs12->secondary_vm_exec_control & ECONDARY_EXEC_VIRTUALIZE_APIC_ACCESSES))
write(PIC_ACCESS_ADDR)

In other words if L2 shares L1 apic access page then reload, otherwise do nothing.

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Gleb.