Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] VMX: use a single, global APIC access page

2021-03-01 Thread Jan Beulich
On 01.03.2021 03:34, Tian, Kevin wrote: >> From: Jan Beulich >> Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:57 PM >> >> The address of this page is used by the CPU only to recognize when to >> access the virtual APIC page instead. No accesses would ever go to this >> page. It only needs to be present in the

RE: [PATCH v3 2/2] VMX: use a single, global APIC access page

2021-02-28 Thread Tian, Kevin
> From: Jan Beulich > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 6:57 PM > > The address of this page is used by the CPU only to recognize when to > access the virtual APIC page instead. No accesses would ever go to this > page. It only needs to be present in the (CPU) page tables so that > address translat

[PATCH v3 2/2] VMX: use a single, global APIC access page

2021-02-22 Thread Jan Beulich
The address of this page is used by the CPU only to recognize when to access the virtual APIC page instead. No accesses would ever go to this page. It only needs to be present in the (CPU) page tables so that address translation will produce its address as result for respective accesses. By making