Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] KVM: multiple address spaces (for SMM)

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed May 20 2015 - 05:00:07 EST




On 20/05/2015 10:31, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>
> So in essence this allows to have each vcpu in separate address space if
> necessary. These address space might overlap or be identical and allow
> permutations by having different memslots for each address space.
> And we can have several address spaces per vcpu. Correct?

Yes, exactly.

I've also posted QEMU patches that may give more insight on how this is
used.

Paolo

> This might be useful for kvm on s390 (e.g. we did the ucontrol thing that
> also has one guest address space per vcpu). I need to have a look at that.
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