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

Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-11T14:37:54Z

Il 11/09/2014 16:31, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
>> > What if the page being swapped out is L1's APIC access page? We don't
>> > run prepare_vmcs12 in that case because it's an L2->L0->L2 entry, so we
>> > need to "do something".
> We will do something on L2->L1 exit. We will call kvm_reload_apic_access_page().
> That is what patch 5 of this series is doing.

Sorry, I meant "the APIC access page prepared by L1" for L2's execution.

You wrote:

> 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.

but in that case you have to redo nested_get_page, so "do nothing"
doesn't work.

Paolo