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Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: expose VPID capability to L1

From Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: expose VPID capability to L1
Date 2015-10-08 09:20 +0200
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On 9/29/15 6:39 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 29/09/2015 04:55, Wanpeng Li wrote:
>> Expose VPID capability to L1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
>> ---
>> v1 -> v2:
>>   * set only VMX_VPID_EXTENT_GLOBAL_CONTEXT_BIT
> Thanks.  I've checked more thoroughly your implementation against the
> SDM now, and there are a few missing things between this patch and the
> one that emulates INVVPID:
>
> - you're not setting bit 32 of the VMX_EPT_VPID_CAP MSR
>
> - you were not checking against the supported types in the
> implementation of the INVVPID instruction
>
> - the memory operand must always be read even if it isn't needed (e.g.,
> for type==global), similar to INVEPT
>
> - for single-context invalidation you're not checking that VPID != 0,
> though in practice that doesn't matter because we don't want to support
> single-context invalidation
>
> - you're always setting the MSR's bits to 1 even if !enable_vpid

I believe you mean always setting the MSR's bits to 1 when !enable_ept 
and enable_vpid.

>
> At this point it's better if you resend the whole nested VPID
> implementation, i.e. the following five patches:
>
> KVM: VMX: adjust interface to allocate/free_vpid
> KVM: VMX: introduce __vmx_flush_tlb to handle specific vpid
> KVM: nVMX: emulate the INVVPID instruction
> KVM: nVMX: nested VPID emulation
> KVM: nVMX: expose VPID capability to L1
>
> with the above issues fixed.

I just send out v2.

> Please also send kvm-unit-tests patches
> that tests for the error cases.

I will do it later.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: nVMX: expose VPID capability to L1 Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-08 09:20 +0200

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