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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Jim Mattson" <jmattson@google.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_STATE
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:39:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51bbd7b1-32de-f14d-6b27-d6d4a9414faa@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1523545958-28059-2-git-send-email-karahmed@amazon.de>
On 12/04/2018 17:12, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
>
> For nested virtualization L0 KVM is managing a bit of state for L2 guests,
> this state can not be captured through the currently available IOCTLs. In
> fact the state captured through all of these IOCTLs is usually a mix of L1
> and L2 state. It is also dependent on whether the L2 guest was running at
> the moment when the process was interrupted to save its state.
>
> With this capability, there are two new vcpu ioctls: KVM_GET_VMX_STATE and
> KVM_SET_VMX_STATE. These can be used for saving and restoring a VM that is
> in VMX operation.
>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
> Cc: x86@kernel.org
> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
> [karahmed@ - rename structs and functions and make them ready for AMD and
> address previous comments.
> - rebase & a bit of refactoring.
> - Merge 7/8 and 8/8 into one patch.
> - Force a VMExit from L2 after reading the kvm_state to avoid
> mixed state between L1 and L2 on resurrecting the instance. ]
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
> ---
> v2 -> v3:
> - Remove the forced VMExit from L2 after reading the kvm_state. The actual
> problem is solved.
> - Rebase again!
> - Set nested_run_pending during restore (not sure if it makes sense yet or
> not).
> - Reduce KVM_REQUEST_ARCH_BASE to 7 instead of 8 (the other alternative is
> to switch everything to u64)
You still have to rename everything to KVM_{CAP,GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE
(and {vmx_{get,set}_nested state) though. :)
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-12 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-12 15:12 [PATCH 1/2] X86/KVM: Properly restore 'tsc_offset' when running an L2 guest KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-04-12 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: nVMX: Introduce KVM_CAP_STATE KarimAllah Ahmed
2018-04-12 16:39 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-04-14 15:56 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
2018-04-14 22:31 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
2018-04-16 16:22 ` Jim Mattson
2018-04-16 17:15 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
2018-04-26 22:28 ` Jim Mattson
2018-04-27 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-27 15:19 ` Jim Mattson
2018-04-28 0:42 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-12 16:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] X86/KVM: Properly restore 'tsc_offset' when running an L2 guest Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-12 17:04 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
2018-04-12 17:21 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
2018-04-12 20:21 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-04-12 20:24 ` Raslan, KarimAllah
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