linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH V2 00/11] Intel EPT-Based Sub-page Protection Support

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Message-ID: <b0366848-1f0e-1a9a-8810-12ad77b39eb2@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:37:49 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Mihai Donțu <mdontu@...defender.com>,
        rkrcmar@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Nicusor CITU <ncitu@...defender.com>,
        Adalbert Lazăr <alazar@...defender.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 00/11] Intel EPT-Based Sub-page Protection Support

On 04/12/18 07:35, Yi Zhang wrote:
> On 2018-12-03 at 05:56:13 +0200, Mihai Donțu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I think the right thing to do here would be to first get VM
>>> introspection in KVM, as SPP is mostly an introspection feature and it
>>> should be controller by the introspector rather than the KVM userspace.
>>>
>>> Mihai, if you resubmit, I promise that I will look at it promptly.
> Thanks review, Paolo, What do u think we cook some user-cases for qemu or
> some kvmtools? even with some other kernel hyper-calls?

That's up to you.  If you can find a usecase, I'll certainly consider
this independent patch set and the ioctl API.

Paolo