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From: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>
To: "JBeulich@suse.com" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Dyasli <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>,
	Andrew Cooper <Andrew.Cooper3@citrix.com>,
	"jun.nakajima@intel.com" <jun.nakajima@intel.com>,
	"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/6] vvmx: add hvm_max_vmx_msr_policy
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 10:23:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1499336627.3082.6.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <595BCA8C02000078001686EC@prv-mh.provo.novell.com>

On Tue, 2017-07-04 at 09:04 -0600, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 26.06.17 at 12:44, <sergey.dyasli@citrix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > +{
> > +    struct vmx_msr_policy *p = &hvm_max_vmx_msr_policy;
> > +    uint64_t data, *msr;
> > +    u32 default1_bits;
> > +
> > +    *p = raw_vmx_msr_policy;
> > +
> > +    /* XXX: vmcs_revision_id for nested virt */
> 
> There was no such comment (presumably indicating something that
> yet needs doing) in the old code - what's this about? Can't this be
> implemented instead of such a comment be added?

Currently L1 sees vmcs_revision_id value from the H/W MSR. Which is
fine until live migration is concerned. The question is: what should
happen if L1 is migrated to some other H/W with different vmcs id?
One possible solution is to use "virtual vmcs id" in the policy object.

-- 
Thanks,
Sergey
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-26 10:44 [PATCH v1 0/6] VMX MSRs policy for Nested Virt: part 1 Sergey Dyasli
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] vmx: add struct vmx_msr_policy Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-04 13:57   ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-06  9:21     ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-06  9:59       ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-05  3:02   ` Tian, Kevin
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] vmx: add raw_vmx_msr_policy Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-04 14:15   ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-06  9:29     ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-06  9:45       ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] vmx: refactor vmx_init_vmcs_config() Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-04 14:26   ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-05  3:21   ` Tian, Kevin
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] vvmx: add hvm_max_vmx_msr_policy Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-04 15:04   ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-06 10:23     ` Sergey Dyasli [this message]
2017-07-06 12:28       ` Jan Beulich
2017-07-07 13:01         ` Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-07 14:01           ` Andrew Cooper
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] vvmx: add per domain vmx msr policy Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-04 15:09   ` Jan Beulich
2017-06-26 10:44 ` [DEBUG PATCH 6/6] vmx: print H/W VMX MSRs values during startup Sergey Dyasli
2017-07-05  2:52 ` [PATCH v1 0/6] VMX MSRs policy for Nested Virt: part 1 Tian, Kevin

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