On 11/30/2010 07:03 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
Hi Avi, Hi Marcelo,

this patchset wraps the access to the intercept vectors in the VMCB into
specific functions. There are two reasons for this:

        1) In the nested-svm code the effective intercept masks are
           calculated from the host and the guest intercept masks.
           Whenever KVM changes the host intercept mask while the VCPU
           is in guest-mode the effective intercept masks need to be
           re-calculated. This is nicely wrapped into these functions
           now and makes the code more robust.

        2) These changes make the implementation of the upcoming
           vmcb-clean-bits feature easier and also more robust (which
           was the main reason for writing this patchset).

These patches were developed on-top of the patch-set I sent yesterday. I
tested these patches with various guests (Windows-64, Linux 32,32e and
64 as well as with nested-svm).


Looks good.

One potential issue is that a series of set_intercept()s causes recalc_intercepts() to be called multiple times. If it turns out to be a problem, we can fix it by having an intercepts dirty bit and recalculating during guest entry if the bit is set.

Since it's nested svm only, I doubt we'll see a problem in the short term.

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