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From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@amd.com>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Cc: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@citrix.com>, Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/17] vmx: nest: domain and vcpu flags
Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 11:51:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201005201151.49589.Christoph.Egger@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100520093753.GL4164@whitby.uk.xensource.com>

On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:37:53 Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 10:41 +0100 on 22 Apr (1271932876), Qing He wrote:
> > Introduce a domain create flag to allow user to set availability
> > of nested virtualization.
> > The flag will be used to disable all reporting and function
> > facilities, improving guest security.
>
> I have the same reservation about this as Christoph's patch: I don't
> think this needs to be a create-time flag - there's no reason it can't
> be enabled or disabled with a domctl after domain creation.  (And of
> course we'll want it to bve the same interface on both SVM and VMX.)

I already reworked that part to use HVM_PARAM_*. It showed up one
caveat: The nestedhvm_enabled() becomes true after p2m_init()
run. So the hap-on-hap code wasn't initialized.
I worked around that by initialising nestedp2m's in p2m_init()
unconditionally of having nestedhvm=1 in the guest config file
or not.

Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-20  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-22  9:41 [PATCH 00/17][RFC] Nested virtualization for VMX Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 01/17] vmx: nest: fix CR4.VME in update_guest_cr Qing He
2010-05-20  9:26   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20  9:36     ` Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 02/17] vmx: nest: rename host_vmcs Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 03/17] vmx: nest: wrapper for control update Qing He
2010-05-20  9:34   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20  9:46     ` Qing He
2010-05-20 12:57       ` Keir Fraser
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 04/17] vmx: nest: domain and vcpu flags Qing He
2010-05-20  9:37   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20  9:51     ` Christoph Egger [this message]
2010-05-20  9:54     ` Qing He
2010-05-20 10:55       ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 12:53         ` Qing He
2010-05-20 14:06           ` Christoph Egger
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 05/17] vmx: nest: nested control structure Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 06/17] vmx: nest: virtual vmcs layout Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 07/17] vmx: nest: handling VMX instruction exits Qing He
2010-05-20 10:53   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 13:28     ` Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 08/17] vmx: nest: L1 <-> L2 context switch Qing He
2010-05-20 11:11   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 13:49     ` Qing He
2010-05-21  9:19       ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-21 10:31         ` Qing He
2010-05-25 15:27           ` Tim Deegan
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 09/17] vmx: nest: interrupt Qing He
2010-05-20 11:21   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 15:55     ` Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 10/17] vmx: nest: VMExit handler in L2 Qing He
2010-05-20 11:44   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 16:06     ` Qing He
2010-05-21  8:42       ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-21 10:35         ` Qing He
2010-05-25 15:34           ` Tim Deegan
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 11/17] vmx: nest: L2 tsc Qing He
2010-05-20 11:47   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-20 16:07     ` Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 12/17] vmx: nest: CR0.TS and #NM Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 13/17] vmx: nest: capability reporting MSRs Qing He
2010-05-20 11:52   ` Tim Deegan
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 14/17] vmx: nest: enable virtual VMX Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 15/17] vmx: nest: virtual ept for nested Qing He
2010-05-20 12:21   ` Tim Deegan
2010-05-21 10:24     ` Qing He
2010-05-25 16:02       ` Tim Deegan
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 16/17] vmx: nest: hvmtrace " Qing He
2010-04-22  9:41 ` [PATCH 17/17] tools: nest: allow enabling nesting Qing He
2010-04-22 10:15 ` [PATCH 00/17][RFC] Nested virtualization for VMX Christoph Egger
2010-04-23 10:10   ` He, Qing

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