On 05/24/2011 03:26 PM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
Hi Avi, here is a updated version of the loaded_vmcs patch which you asked me to send before the rest of the nvmx patches. Please let me know when you'd like me to send you an updated version of the rest of the patches. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [PATCH 01/31] nVMX: Keep list of loaded VMCSs, instead of vcpus. In VMX, before we bring down a CPU we must VMCLEAR all VMCSs loaded on it because (at least in theory) the processor might not have written all of its content back to memory. Since a patch from June 26, 2008, this is done using a per-cpu "vcpus_on_cpu" linked list of vcpus loaded on each CPU. The problem is that with nested VMX, we no longer have the concept of a vcpu being loaded on a cpu: A vcpu has multiple VMCSs (one for L1, a pool for L2s), and each of those may be have been last loaded on a different cpu. So instead of linking the vcpus, we link the VMCSs, using a new structure loaded_vmcs. This structure contains the VMCS, and the information pertaining to its loading on a specific cpu (namely, the cpu number, and whether it was already launched on this cpu once). In nested we will also use the same structure to hold L2 VMCSs, and vmx->loaded_vmcs is a pointer to the currently active VMCS.
Applied, thanks. Do you have a list of unresolved issues? If not, please repost the series. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
