Re: [PATCH 0/3] KVM: x86: replace kvm_vcpu_map usage in vmx

David Stevens
2023-03-06T01:46:13Z

On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 4:19 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023, David Stevens wrote:
> > From: David Stevens <stevensd@chromium.org>
> >
> > This series replaces the usage of kvm_vcpu_map in vmx with
> > gfn_to_pfn_cache. See [1] for details on why kvm_vcpu_map is broken.
> >
> > The presence of kvm_vcpu_map blocks another series I would like to
> > try to merge [2]. Although I'm not familiar with the internals of vmx,
> > I've gone ahead and taken a stab at this cleanup. I've done some manual
> > testing with nested VMs, and KVM selftests pass, but thorough feedback
> > would be appreciated. Once this cleanup is done, I'll take a look at
> > removing kvm_vcpu_map from svm.
>
> Woot, been waiting for someone to take this one, thanks! It'll likely be a week
> or two until I get 'round to this, but it's definitely something I want to get
> merged sooner than later.

Sean, will you be able to get to this in the next few weeks?

Thanks,
David