linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data when SEV is active

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Message-ID: <20180910164851.GC20286@zn.tnic>
Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 18:48:51 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:     Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@....com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/5] x86/kvm: Avoid dynamic allocation of pvclock data
 when SEV is active

Ok,

so *maybe* - and I pretty much have no clue about virt - but just
*maybe*, that kvmclock thing can be shared by all CPUs in a *guest*
then. As in: the guest should see stable clocks which are the same
regardless from which vCPU they're read and so on...

Just a dumb idea anyway - this is me thinking about baremetal and trying
to convert that to virt.

But I'd say the memory savings aspect is something we can discuss later,
when there's time and after the regression at hand has been addressed...

Thx.

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    Boris.

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