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Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] VMX: use a single, global APIC access page



At 12:52 +0200 on 23 Apr (1619182377), Jan Beulich wrote:
> 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 this page global, we also eliminate the need to refcount it,
> or to assign it to any domain in the first place.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Looks good, thanks for the changes!

Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>



 


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