Re: [PATCH 0/4] Lightweight svm vmload/vmsave (almost)

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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:20:30PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> This patchset moves svm towards a lightweight vmload/vmsave path.  It was
> hindered by CVE-2010-3698 which was discovered during its development, and
> by the lack of per-cpu IDT in Linux, which makes it more or less useless.
> However, even so it's a slight improvement, and merging it will reduce the
> work needed when we do have per-cpu IDT.
> 
> Avi Kivity (4):
>   KVM: SVM: Move guest register save out of interrupts disabled section
>   KVM: SVM: Move svm->host_gs_base into a separate structure
>   KVM: SVM: Move fs/gs/ldt save/restore to heavyweight exit path
>   KVM: SVM: Fold save_host_msrs() and load_host_msrs() into their
>     callers
> 
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |   61 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
>  1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
> 

Applied, thanks.

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