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The VMM is responsible for managing the set of available system resources (CPU,
memory, peripherals) and implement policies to virtualize these resources. In order to
support virtual processor operations, the VMM will create a
virtual environment
and
associate logical processors with the virtual environment. A virtual environment
consists of one or more logical processors plus the memory resource allocated by the
VMM during PAL_VP_INIT_ENV.
The VMM creates a virtual environment by calling PAL_VP_ENV_INFO to obtain the
memory requirement for creating a virtual environment, and then by calling
PAL_VP_INIT_ENV on each logical processor that is to be part of the virtual
environment. After a virtual environment is created, the VMM can create and initialize
virtual processors to run in the environment by calling PAL_VP_CREATE.
The state of a virtual processor belonging to a virtual environment can be
restored/saved on a logical processor in the environment by calling PAL_VP_RESTORE
or PAL_VP_SAVE respectively. The VMM starts virtual processor operations on a logical
processor by invoking either PAL_VPS_RESUME_NORMAL or
PAL_VPS_RESUME_HANDLER.
The VMM can add/remove a logical processor from a virtual environment at any time by
calling PAL_VP_INIT_ENV or PAL_VP_EXIT_ENV respectively.
11.7.1
Virtual Processor Descriptor (VPD)
The Virtual Processor Descriptor (VPD) represents the abstraction of processor
resources of a single virtual processor. The VPD consists of per-virtual-processor control
information together with performance-critical architectural state. The VPD is 64K in
size and the base must be 32K aligned.
shows the fields and layout of the
VPD. The values in the VPD can be stored in little or big endian format, depending on
the setting of
be
“config_options – Global Configuration Options”
during
PAL_VP_INIT_ENV call. See
“PAL_VP_INIT_ENV – PAL Initialize Virtual Environment
for details. The VPD is divided into two classes – the first class
stores control information and the second class stores the performance-critical
architectural state of the virtual processor.
The VMM must keep the virtual processor state in the VPD for a particular state entry
either: always, or only when one or more particular accelerations is enabled, as
described in the Class columns of
. See
Section 11.7.4.2, “Virtualization Accelerations” on page 2:337
for details.
Note:
Not all architectural state of the virtual processor is included in the VPD. The
VMM is responsible for setting up all the required virtual processor state in the
architectural registers as well as in the VPD prior to resuming virtual processor
execution. See
Table 11-122, “Virtual Processor Settings in Architectural
Resources for PAL_VPS_RESUME_NORMAL and PAL_VPS_RESUME_HANDLER”
on page 2:489
Table 11-123, “Processor Status Register Settings for Vir-
tual Processor Execution” on page 2:490
for details.
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