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Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor

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Isn't McAfee DeepSAFE defunct? Are there any other consumers of EPTP switching?

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> wrote:
> These patches expose eptp switching/vmfunc to the nested hypervisor. Testing with
> kvm-unit-tests seems to work ok.
>
> If the guest hypervisor enables vmfunc/eptp switching, a "shadow" eptp list
> address page is written to the VMCS. Initially, it would be unpopulated which
> would result in a vmexit with exit reason 59. This hooks to handle_vmfunc()
> to rewrite vmcs12->ept_pointer to reload the mmu and get a new root hpa.
> This new shadow ept pointer is written to the shadow eptp list in the given
> index. A next vmfunc call to switch to the given index would succeed without
> an exit.
>
> Bandan Das (2):
>   KVM: nVMX: Implement EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor
>   KVM: nVMX: Advertise VMFUNC to L1 hypervisor
>
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vmx.h |   9 ++++
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c         | 122 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 131 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.9.4
>

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[PATCH 0/2] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-06-30 01:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com> - 2017-06-30 19:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com> - 2017-06-30 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose VMFUNC to the nested hypervisor Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2017-06-30 21:10 +0200

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