EPT in kvm

1. Overview of EPT

CPU will use both guest page table and extended page table. The address of EPT is set by the function vmx_set_cr3.

1753 static void vmx_set_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3)
1754 {
1755         unsigned long guest_cr3;
1756         u64 eptp;
1757 
1758         guest_cr3 = cr3;
1759         if (enable_ept) {
1760                 eptp = construct_eptp(cr3);
1761                 vmcs_write64(EPT_POINTER, eptp);
1762                 guest_cr3 = is_paging(vcpu) ? vcpu->arch.cr3 :
1763                         VMX_EPT_IDENTITY_PAGETABLE_ADDR;
1764         }
1765 
1766         vmx_flush_tlb(vcpu);
1767         vmcs_writel(GUEST_CR3, guest_cr3);
1768         if (vcpu->arch.cr0 & X86_CR0_PE)
1769                 vmx_fpu_deactivate(vcpu);
1770 }

EPT (optionally) activated on VM entry
– When EPT active, EPT base pointer (loaded on VM entry from VMCS) points to extended page tables
– EPT deactivated on VM exit

3947 static struct kvm_x86_ops vmx_x86_ops = {

3975         .set_cr3 = vmx_set_cr3,

          .....

}

在函数 kvm_vcpu_ioctl 中

static long kvm_vcpu_ioctl(struct file *filp,  unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg)
case KVM_RUN:
           r = -EINVAL;
           if (arg)
                     goto out;
           r = kvm_ar