On 28/10/2019 15:29, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Previously we did not do this.  Indeed we have never done so.  Stub
> domains have had no memory allowance for shadow memory.  This seems to
> be an existing bug which we fix.
>
> x86 maintainers: please comment.

PV guests need a shadow allocation to migrate, or if they trip over the
PV L1TF safety checks.

The former is not applicable to stubdoms, and the latter is arguably
better left with a shadow allocation of 0.

These are infrastructure VMs rather than customer VMs, and there is no
excuse really to be running an L1TF-vulnerable stubdom which is taking
the 20% perf hit.

~Andrew

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