On Wed, 2021-05-26 at 18:01 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2021, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > This patch set aims to fix few flaws that were discovered
> > in KVM_{GET|SET}_SREGS on x86:
> >
> > * There is no support for reading/writing PDPTRs although
> > these are considered to be part of the guest state.
> >
> > * There is useless interrupt bitmap which isn't needed
> >
> > * No support for future extensions (via flags and such)
> >
> > Also if the user doesn't use the new SREG2 api, the PDPTR
> > load after migration is now done on KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES
> > to at least read them correctly in cases when guest memory
> > map is not up to date when nested state is loaded.
> >
> > This patch series was tested by doing nested migration test
> > of 32 bit PAE L1 + 32 bit PAE L2 on AMD and Intel and by
> > nested migration test of 64 bit L1 + 32 bit PAE L2 on AMD.
> > The later test currently fails on Intel (regardless of my patches).
> >
> > Changes from V1:
> > - move only PDPTRS load to KVM_REQ_GET_NESTED_STATE_PAGES on VMX
> > - rebase on top of kvm/queue
> > - improve the KVM_GET_SREGS2 to have flag for PDPTRS
> > and remove padding
> >
> > Patches to qemu will be send soon as well.
>
> How did you want to handle integration with the removal of
> pdptrs_changed()?
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/68ff1249-2902-43d5-3dfd-35b1f14c4f90@xxxxxxxxxx
>
Hi!
Sorry that I missed your mail. I will take a look in a day or so at
this, and I don't envision any significant trouble with removal of
pdptrs_changed, since it is only an optimization anyway.
Thanks,
Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky
