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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>, kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu
Cc: maz@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	shan.gavin@gmail.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFCv2 9/9] arm64: Support async page fault
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 12:48:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ab64c6a-582b-691d-79ab-21cdc0455cd3@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a6addc25-29af-3690-8392-efa5e8381e98@redhat.com>

On 28/05/20 08:14, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> - for x86 we're also thinking of initiating the page fault from the
>> exception handler, rather than doing so from the hypervisor before
>> injecting the exception.  If ARM leads the way here, we would do our
>> best to share code when x86 does the same.
> 
> Sorry, Paolo, I don't follow your idea here. Could you please provide
> more details?

The idea is to inject stage2 page faults into the guest even before the
host starts populates the page.  The guest then invokes a hypercall,
telling the host to populate the page table and inject the 'page ready'
event (interrupt) when it's done.

For x86 the advantage is that the processor can take care of raising the
stage2 page fault in the guest, so it's faster.

Paolo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-28 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-08  3:29 [PATCH RFCv2 0/9] kvm/arm64: Support Async Page Fault Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 1/9] arm64: Probe for the presence of KVM hypervisor services during boot Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 2/9] arm/arm64: KVM: Advertise KVM UID to guests via SMCCC Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 3/9] kvm/arm64: Rename kvm_vcpu_get_hsr() to kvm_vcpu_get_esr() Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 10:42   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  2:43     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-27  7:20       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-28  6:34         ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 4/9] kvm/arm64: Detach ESR operator from vCPU struct Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 10:51   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  2:55     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 5/9] kvm/arm64: Replace hsr with esr Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 10:45   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  2:56     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 6/9] kvm/arm64: Export kvm_handle_user_mem_abort() with prefault mode Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 10:58   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  3:01     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 7/9] kvm/arm64: Support async page fault Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 12:34   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  4:05     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-27  7:37       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-28  6:32         ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 8/9] kernel/sched: Add cpu_rq_is_locked() Gavin Shan
2020-05-08  3:29 ` [PATCH RFCv2 9/9] arm64: Support async page fault Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 12:56   ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  6:48   ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-28  6:14     ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-28  7:03       ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-28 10:53         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-28 10:48       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2020-05-28 23:02         ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-29  9:41           ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-29 11:11             ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-05-31 12:44               ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-01  9:21                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-06-02  5:44                   ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-25 23:39 ` [PATCH RFCv2 0/9] kvm/arm64: Support Async Page Fault Gavin Shan
2020-05-26 13:09 ` Mark Rutland
2020-05-27  2:39   ` Gavin Shan
2020-05-27  7:48     ` Marc Zyngier
2020-05-27 16:10       ` Paolo Bonzini

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