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From: marc.zyngier@arm.com (Marc Zyngier)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/29] arm64: KVM: HYP mode world switch implementation
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:54:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <514AF50D.8060206@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514A1641.6030709@codeaurora.org>

On 20/03/13 20:04, Christopher Covington wrote:
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On 03/13/2013 03:59 PM, Christopher Covington wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Alternatively, you could consider storing the host registers in a
>> slimmed-down vcpu structure for hosts, rather than on the stack.

I am actively implementing this (I'm turning the vfp_host pointer into a
full blown CPU context). It looks promising so far, stay tuned.

> One potential argument for storing the host in the same sort of vcpu structure
> as the guest rather than on the hypervisor stack is that snapshot and
> migration support initially intended for guests might more easily be extended
> to work for hosts as well.

Not sure I'm following you here. Are you thinking of snapshoting both
host and guests, and migrating the whole thing? Ambitious... ;-)

	M.
-- 
Jazz is not dead. It just smells funny...

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-21 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  3:47 [PATCH 00/29] Port of KVM to arm64 Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 01/29] arm64: KVM: define HYP and Stage-2 translation page flags Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 02/29] arm64: KVM: HYP mode idmap support Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 03/29] arm64: KVM: EL2 register definitions Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 04/29] arm64: KVM: system register definitions for 64bit guests Marc Zyngier
2013-03-07 10:33   ` [kvmarm] " Alexander Graf
2013-03-08  3:23     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-12 13:20   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-12 13:41     ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-12 13:50     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 05/29] arm64: KVM: Basic ESR_EL2 helpers and vcpu register access Marc Zyngier
2013-03-16  0:55   ` Geoff Levand
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 06/29] arm64: KVM: fault injection into a guest Marc Zyngier
2013-03-12 13:20   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-12 14:25     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-16  1:03   ` Geoff Levand
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 07/29] arm64: KVM: architecture specific MMU backend Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 08/29] arm64: KVM: user space interface Marc Zyngier
2013-03-07  8:09   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-08  3:46     ` [kvmarm] " Marc Zyngier
2013-03-10  9:23       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 09/29] arm64: KVM: system register handling Marc Zyngier
2013-03-07 10:30   ` [kvmarm] " Alexander Graf
2013-03-08  3:29     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-25  8:19     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-04-23 23:07       ` Christoffer Dall
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 10/29] arm64: KVM: Cortex-A57 specific system registers handling Marc Zyngier
2013-03-13 18:30   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-14 10:26     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 11/29] arm64: KVM: virtual CPU reset Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 12/29] arm64: KVM: kvm_arch and kvm_vcpu_arch definitions Marc Zyngier
2013-03-12 17:30   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 13/29] arm64: KVM: MMIO access backend Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 14/29] arm64: KVM: guest one-reg interface Marc Zyngier
2013-03-12 17:31   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-12 18:05     ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-12 22:07       ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-13  7:48         ` Marc Zyngier
2013-03-13 20:34           ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-14  8:57             ` [kvmarm] " Peter Maydell
2013-03-20 20:06               ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 15/29] arm64: KVM: hypervisor initialization code Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 16/29] arm64: KVM: HYP mode world switch implementation Marc Zyngier
2013-03-13 19:59   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-20 20:04     ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-21 11:54       ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 17/29] arm64: KVM: Exit handling Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 18/29] arm64: KVM: Plug the VGIC Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 19/29] arm64: KVM: Plug the arch timer Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 20/29] arm64: KVM: PSCI implementation Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 21/29] arm64: KVM: Build system integration Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 22/29] arm64: KVM: define 32bit specific registers Marc Zyngier
2013-03-18 17:03   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 23/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit GP register access Marc Zyngier
2013-03-16  0:24   ` Geoff Levand
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 24/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit conditional execution emulation Marc Zyngier
2013-03-18 17:04   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 25/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit handling of coprocessor traps Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 26/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit coprocessor access for Cortex-A57 Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 27/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit specific register world switch Marc Zyngier
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 28/29] arm64: KVM: 32bit guest fault injection Marc Zyngier
2013-03-18 18:45   ` Christopher Covington
2013-03-05  3:47 ` [PATCH 29/29] arm64: KVM: enable initialization of a 32bit vcpu Marc Zyngier
2013-03-18 18:56   ` Christopher Covington

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