Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] KVM: nVMX: Restore the VMCS12 offsets for v4.0 fields

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Paolo,

Any chance of getting this in before others start snapshotting L2 state?

On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:16 PM, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
<konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 03:40:27PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
>> Changing the VMCS12 layout will break save/restore compatibility with
>> older kvm releases once the KVM_{GET,SET}_NESTED_STATE ioctls are
>> accepted upstream. Google has already been using these ioctls for some
>> time, and we implore the community not to disturb the existing layout.
>>
>> Move the four most recently added fields to preserve the offsets of
>> the previously defined fields and reserve locations for the vmread and
>> vmwrite bitmaps, which will be used in the virtualization of VMCS
>> shadowing (to improve the performance of double-nesting).
> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>



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