Manish Regmi wrote: > When kvm initializes, it calls hardware_setup which calls > alloc_kvm_area which allocates vmcs for each online processor and > stores the pointer in percpu basis. >
VT requires a per-cpu page to store the host state in when VMLAUNCH is executed. This is the host save area and it's passed to the VMXON instruction in hardware_enable(). It's the VMCS for the host. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Later when vmx_create_vcpu is called, the vmcs area is allocated > (again) and this time for the cpu the code is currently executing on. > possibly it is already allocated. > > Is this a bug or i am missing something. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
