Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] KVM: xen: update shared_info and vcpu_info handling

[Paul Durrant]

On 05/10/2023 07:41, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2023-10-02 at 09:57 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The following text from the original cover letter still serves as an
> > introduction to the series:
> >
> > "Currently we treat the shared_info page as guest memory and the VMM
> > informs KVM of its location using a GFN. However it is not guest memory as
> > such; it's an overlay page. So we pointlessly invalidate and re-cache a
> > mapping to the *same page* of memory every time the guest requests that
> > shared_info be mapped into its address space. Let's avoid doing that by
> > modifying the pfncache code to allow activation using a fixed userspace HVA
> > as well as a GPA."
> >
> > This version of the series is functionally the same as version 6. I have
> > simply added David Woodhouse's R-b to patch 11 to indicate that he has
> > now fully reviewed the series.
>
> Thanks. I believe Sean is probably waiting for us to stop going back
> and forth, and for the dust to settle. So for the record: I think I'm
> done heckling and this is ready to go in.
>
> Are you doing the QEMU patches or am I?

I'll do the QEMU changes, once the patches hit kvm/next.