linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 5/9] KVM: VMX: Add init/set/get functions for SPP

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Date:   Thu, 15 Aug 2019 09:25:41 -0700
From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To:     Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@...el.com>
Cc:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        kvm list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        yu.c.zhang@...el.com, alazar@...defender.com,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v4 5/9] KVM: VMX: Add init/set/get functions for SPP

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 6:41 AM Yang Weijiang <weijiang.yang@...el.com> wrote:

> Hi, Vitaly,
> After looked into the issue and others, I feel to make SPP co-existing
> with nested VM is not good, the major reason is, L1 pages protected by
> SPP are transparent to L1 VM, if it launches L2 VM, probably the
> pages would be allocated to L2 VM, and that will bother to L1 and L2.
> Given the feature is new and I don't see nested VM can benefit
> from it right now, I would like to make SPP and nested feature mutually
> exclusive, i.e., detecting if the other part is active before activate one
> feature,what do you think of it?
> thanks!

How do you propose making the features mutually exclusive?