Re: [PATCH 0/8] KVM: nSVM: ondemand nested state allocation + smm fixes

From: Maxim Levitsky
Date: Thu Aug 27 2020 - 13:12:26 EST


On Thu, 2020-08-27 at 20:04 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> This patch series does some refactoring and implements on demand nested state area
> This way at least guests that don't use nesting won't waste memory
> on nested state.
>
> This patch series is based on patch series '[PATCH 0/3] Few nSVM bugfixes'
> (patch #7 here should have beeing moved there as well to be honest)
>
> The series was tested with various nested guests, and it seems to work
> as long as I disable the TSC deadline timer (this is unrelated to this
> patch series)
>
> I addressed the review feedback from V2, and added few refactoring
> patches to this series as suggested.
>
> Best regards,
> Maxim Levitsky
>
> Maxim Levitsky (8):
> KVM: SVM: rename a variable in the svm_create_vcpu
> KVM: nSVM: rename nested vmcb to vmcb12
> KVM: SVM: refactor msr permission bitmap allocation
> KVM: SVM: use __GFP_ZERO instead of clear_page
> KVM: SVM: refactor exit labels in svm_create_vcpu
> KVM: x86: allow kvm_x86_ops.set_efer to return a value
> KVM: emulator: more strict rsm checks.
> KVM: nSVM: implement ondemand allocation of the nested state
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c | 22 ++-
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c | 267 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 106 +++++++------
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 10 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 9 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 3 +-
> 7 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 176 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>
Ignore this one, I send this with wrong version.