Messages in this thread | | | From | Paul Durrant <> | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2023 09:36:17 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v7 00/11] KVM: xen: update shared_info and vcpu_info handling |
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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@amazon.com> >> >> 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.
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