Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kvm: vmx: Use the hardware provided GPA instead of page walk | From | Paolo Bonzini <> | Date | Wed, 8 Feb 2017 09:16:12 +0100 |
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On 07/02/2017 21:52, Radim Krčmář wrote: > 2017-01-27 19:34+0100, Paolo Bonzini: >> As in the SVM patch, the guest physical address is passed by >> VMX to x86_emulate_instruction already, so mark the GPA as available >> in vcpu->arch. >> >> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> >> --- > > In line with the SVM patch, > > Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com> > > Still, I don't see why we need a variable that is touched on every VM > exit. Is this a mere shortcut to propagating the gpa_available bit with > the gpa argument to kvm_mmu_page_fault() and x86_emulate_instruction()?
Yes, pretty much.
Paolo
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