From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3DFC6778F for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462C62088E for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:19 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 462C62088E Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729121AbeGYPZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:25:08 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:52994 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727946AbeGYPZI (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:25:08 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.3]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55A4777886; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vitty.brq.redhat.com.redhat.com (unknown [10.40.205.21]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D7F410F1BE0; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Vitaly Kuznetsov To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Radim =?utf-8?B?S3LEjW3DocWZ?= , Roman Kagan , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Haiyang Zhang , Stephen Hemminger , "Michael Kelley \(EOSG\)" , Mohammed Gamal , Cathy Avery , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Mattson , Liran Alon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] KVM: nVMX: optimize prepare_vmcs02{,_full} for Enlightened VMCS case References: <20180621123046.29606-1-vkuznets@redhat.com> <20180621123046.29606-7-vkuznets@redhat.com> <87va93pv6w.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> <46052d1e-9ee1-8cee-3f7c-cf27b1cd0373@redhat.com> <87in53pjgv.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> <87effrphu3.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> <2ed3d00b-bc99-2e2d-3a23-a86de767bfec@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:13:12 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2ed3d00b-bc99-2e2d-3a23-a86de767bfec@redhat.com> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:31:47 +0200") Message-ID: <87a7qfpfnr.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:13:16 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.3' DOMAIN:'int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'vkuznets@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paolo Bonzini writes: > On 25/07/2018 15:26, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote: > >> The other place where we set dirty_vmcs12 is the newly introduced >> vmx_set_nested_state() but I think I'm going to add support for eVMCS >> there later and just return something like -ENOTSUPP for now. Too many >> people work on nested simultaneously :-) > > Hmm, I think that means you have to put the clean fields in the > vmx_nested struct. Then it's really easy in vmx_set_nested_state to > clear all the clean bits. Touching memory in vmx_set_nested_state is... > *puts on sunglasses* a touchy subject (see comment in kvm/queue's > enter_vmx_non_root_mode). > Not only clean fields, in case we can't touch memory in vmx_set_nested_state I guess we'll need to cache the whole eVMCS, just like we save cached_shadow_vmcs12. Anyway, let's eat the elephant one bite at a time :-) -- Vitaly