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Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2023

Filed:

May. 04, 2020
Applicant:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Inventors:

Michael Tsirkin, Lexington, MA (US);

Karen Noel, Pembroke, NH (US);

Assignee:

Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/455 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45558 (2013.01); G06F 2009/45583 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for accelerating hypercalls for nested virtual machines. An example method may comprise executing, by a host computer system, a Level 0 hypervisor managing a Level 1 virtual machine (VM). The Level 0 hypervisor receives a first function component from a Level 2 hypervisor managing a Level 3 VM, where the first function component performs a first functionality associated with a hypercall issued by the Level 3 VM; stores the first function component in a memory space associated with the Level 0 hypervisor; detects the hypercall issued by the Level 3 VM; and responsive to detecting the hypercall, executes the first function component to modify a VM context for the Level 3 VM.


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