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From:   Paul Durrant <xadimgnik@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] KVM: xen: automatically use the vcpu_info embedded in
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On 14/09/2023 10:09, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-09-14 at 08:49 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
>>
>> Add a KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG_DEFAULT_VCPU_INFO flag so that the VMM knows it
>> need only set the KVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_VCPU_INFO attribute in response to
>> a VCPUOP_register_vcpu_info hypercall, and modify get_vcpu_info_cache()
>> to pass back a pointer to the shared info pfn cache (and appropriate
>> offset) for any of the first 32 vCPUs if the attribute has not been set.
> 
> Might be simpler just to link this behaviour to the
> KVM_XEN_ATTR_TYPE_SHARED_INFO_HVA support? If userspace sets the
> shared_info as an HVA, then the default vcpu_info will be used therein.

Well there's no problem in using the default embedded vcpu_info even if 
the guests sets the shared_info via GPA... it still saves the VMM making 
a few ioctls. So do we really want to link the two things?

   Paul