Re: [PATCH 2/8] KVM: x86: extend struct kvm_vcpu_pv_apf_data with token info

[Vitaly Kuznetsov]

Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>
> Why bother preserving backwards compatibility?  AIUI, both KVM and guest
> will support async #PF iff interrupt delivery is enabled.  Why not make
> the interrupt delivery approach KVM_ASYNC_PF_V2 and completely redefine the
> ABI?  E.g. to make it compatible with reflecting !PRESENT faults without a
> VM-Exit via Intel's EPT Violation #VE?
>

That's the plan, actually. 'page not present' becomes #VE and 'page
present' becomes an interrupt (we don't need to inject them
synchronously). These two parts are fairly independent but can be merged
to reuse the same new capability/CPUID.

-- 
Vitaly