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