From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
maran.wilson@oracle.com, mtosatti@redhat.com,
dgilbert@redhat.com, jmattson@google.com, rth@twiddle.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 0/10]: target/i386: kvm: Add support for save and restore of nested state
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 14:38:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bcb617b1-7d20-d2ff-81c5-9f165eae5683@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190619162140.133674-1-liran.alon@oracle.com>
On 19/06/19 18:21, Liran Alon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series aims to add support for QEMU to be able to migrate VMs that
> are running nested hypervisors. In order to do so, it utilizes the new
> IOCTLs introduced in KVM commit 8fcc4b5923af ("kvm: nVMX: Introduce
> KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE") which was created for this purpose.
Applied with just three minor changes that should be uncontroversial:
> 6rd patch updates linux-headers to have updated struct kvm_nested_state.
> The updated struct now have explicit fields for the data portion.
Changed patch title to "linux-headers: sync with latest KVM headers from
Linux 5.2"
> 7rd patch add vmstate support for saving/restoring kernel integer types (e.g. __u16).
>
> 8th patch adds support for saving and restoring nested state in order to migrate
> guests which run a nested hypervisor.
diff --git a/target/i386/kvm.c b/target/i386/kvm.c
index e924663f32..f3cf6e1b27 100644
--- a/target/i386/kvm.c
+++ b/target/i386/kvm.c
@@ -1671,10 +1671,10 @@ int kvm_arch_init_vcpu(CPUState *cs)
struct kvm_vmx_nested_state_hdr *vmx_hdr =
&env->nested_state->hdr.vmx;
+ env->nested_state->format = KVM_STATE_NESTED_FORMAT_VMX;
vmx_hdr->vmxon_pa = -1ull;
vmx_hdr->vmcs12_pa = -1ull;
}
-
}
cpu->kvm_msr_buf = g_malloc0(MSR_BUF_SIZE);
which is a no-op since KVM_STATE_NESTED_FORMAT_VMX is zero, but it's tidy.
> 9th patch add support for KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD. This new KVM capability
> allows userspace to properly distingiush between pending and injecting exceptions.
>
> 10th patch changes the nested virtualization migration blocker to only
> be added when kernel lack support for one of the capabilities required
> for correct nested migration. i.e. Either KVM_CAP_NESTED_STATE or
> KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD.
Had to disable this for SVM unfortunately.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-20 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-19 16:21 [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 0/10]: target/i386: kvm: Add support for save and restore of nested state Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 01/10] target/i386: kvm: Delete VMX migration blocker on vCPU init failure Liran Alon
2019-06-19 20:30 ` Maran Wilson
2019-06-19 20:33 ` Liran Alon
2019-06-19 20:48 ` Maran Wilson
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 02/10] KVM: Introduce kvm_arch_destroy_vcpu() Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 03/10] target/i386: kvm: Use symbolic constant for #DB/#BP exception constants Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 04/10] target/i386: kvm: Re-inject #DB to guest with updated DR6 Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 05/10] target/i386: kvm: Block migration for vCPUs exposed with nested virtualization Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 06/10] linux-headers: i386: Modify struct kvm_nested_state to have explicit fields for data Liran Alon
2019-06-19 21:17 ` Maran Wilson
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 07/10] vmstate: Add support for kernel integer types Liran Alon
2019-06-19 17:37 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 08/10] target/i386: kvm: Add support for save and restore nested state Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 09/10] target/i386: kvm: Add support for KVM_CAP_EXCEPTION_PAYLOAD Liran Alon
2019-06-19 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 10/10] target/i386: kvm: Add nested migration blocker only when kernel lacks required capabilities Liran Alon
2019-06-19 23:52 ` Maran Wilson
2019-06-20 12:38 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-06-20 13:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [QEMU PATCH v4 0/10]: target/i386: kvm: Add support for save and restore of nested state Liran Alon
2019-06-20 13:40 ` Liran Alon
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