From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/hyperv: do not overwrite hc->ingpa for slow SIGNAL_EVENT hypercall
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:33:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59a45f81-8cb2-4794-a529-eab72a45b93a@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADrL8HWS3SLqGfj0CrHhODscUq3fPdKd6Mg1M_53BFdFh4eLvw@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/22/26 01:23, James Houghton wrote:
>> James, how are you feeling about an early morning PUCK in the near future?
> No problems here; the 23rd is fine. The only day I can't do in the
> near-ish future is Oct 14. Thanks!
Great. To sum up what I would like to understand, this is it:
1) the overlap between memory protection attributes and kvm-userfault.
It seems to me that they are almost the same, but I may be wrong.
In particular, they are almost the same in that they are both
stop-and-retry interfaces, unlike userfaultfd which hides the
stop-and-retry behind a page fault and a stopped thread.
2) what strategy you have implemented, or you have in mind, to handle
stop-and-retry for code that does many consecutive memory accesses. The
main one is nested vmentry/vmexit. I have here some mostly untested
code that splits them into prepare/commit/cancel phases, but I haven't
dared posting it.
(Secondarily, we have a TDX-sized dependency between planes, memory
attributes, VBS, and kvm-userfault. That is probably something worth
discussing too, sooner or later).
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-21 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-18 9:43 Paolo Bonzini
2026-09-21 22:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 22:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2026-09-21 23:01 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 23:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2026-09-21 23:11 ` Sean Christopherson
2026-09-21 23:23 ` James Houghton
2026-09-21 23:33 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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