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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c15
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/svm.c4
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 6651dfadae5..21cfa289d0f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@
#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
+/*
+ * When setting this variable to true it enables Two-Dimensional-Paging
+ * where the hardware walks 2 page tables:
+ * 1. the guest-virtual to guest-physical
+ * 2. while doing 1. it walks guest-physical to host-physical
+ * If the hardware supports that we don't need to do shadow paging.
+ */
+static bool tdp_enabled = false;
+
#undef MMU_DEBUG
#undef AUDIT
@@ -1582,6 +1591,12 @@ out:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_mmu_page_fault);
+void kvm_enable_tdp(void)
+{
+ tdp_enabled = true;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kvm_enable_tdp);
+
static void free_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
index fb5d6c2e6a0..9e29a13136c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
@@ -426,8 +426,10 @@ static __init int svm_hardware_setup(void)
npt_enabled = false;
}
- if (npt_enabled)
+ if (npt_enabled) {
printk(KERN_INFO "kvm: Nested Paging enabled\n");
+ kvm_enable_tdp();
+ }
return 0;