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公开(公告)号:US11550609B2
公开(公告)日:2023-01-10
申请号:US16744356
申请日:2020-01-16
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Cyprien Laplace , Regis Duchesne , Alexander Fainkichen , Shruthi Muralidhara Hiriyuru , Ye Li
IPC: G06F9/455
Abstract: An example method of interfacing with a hypervisor in a computing system is described, which includes a processor having at least three hierarchical privilege levels including a third privilege level more privileged than a second privilege level, the second privilege level more privileged than a first privilege level. The method includes: identifying an input/output (I/O) space instruction, not supported by the processor, to be performed for backdoor communication between the hypervisor and guest software executing in a virtual machine (VM) managed by the hypervisor, the hypervisor executing at the third privilege level; writing one or more parameters to one or more registers of the processor that are mapped to one or more unsupported registers used by the I/O space instruction; writing a value indicative of the I/O space instruction to a designated register of the processor; executing an instruction, by the guest software executing at the first or second privilege level, which is trapped to the third privilege level.
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公开(公告)号:US10282226B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-07
申请号:US15385568
申请日:2016-12-20
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Cyprien Laplace , Regis Duchesne , Ye Li , Alexander Fainkichen
IPC: G06F1/32 , G06F9/455 , G06F11/34 , G06F1/3287 , G06F1/3234 , G06F9/50
Abstract: Techniques for optimizing CPU usage in a host system based on VM guest OS power and performance management are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can capture information from a VM guest OS that pertains to a target power or performance state set by the guest OS for a vCPU of the VM. The hypervisor can then perform, based on the captured information, one or more actions that align usage of host CPU resources by the vCPU with the target power or performance state.
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公开(公告)号:US20180173553A1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-21
申请号:US15385568
申请日:2016-12-20
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Cyprien Laplace , Regis Duchesne , Ye Li , Alexander Fainkichen
CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 , G06F1/3234 , G06F1/3287 , G06F9/5077 , G06F11/3423
Abstract: Techniques for optimizing CPU usage in a host system based on VM guest OS power and performance management are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can capture information from a VM guest OS that pertains to a target power or performance state set by the guest OS for a vCPU of the VM. The hypervisor can then perform, based on the captured information, one or more actions that align usage of host CPU resources by the vCPU with the target power or performance state.
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公开(公告)号:US12147530B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-19
申请号:US17960738
申请日:2022-10-05
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Ye Li , Anoop Jaishankar , John Manferdelli , David Ott , Andrei Warkentin
Abstract: The disclosure herein describes deploying a Virtual Secure Enclave (VSE) using a universal enclave binary and a Trusted Runtime (TR). A universal enclave binary is generated that includes a set of binaries of Instruction Set Architectures (ISAs) associated with Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) hardware backends. A TEE hardware backend is identified in association with a VSE-compatible device. A VSE that is compatible with the identified TEE hardware backend is generated on the VSE-compatible device and an ISA binary that matches the TEE hardware backend is selected from the universal enclave binary. The selected binary is linked to a runtime library of the TR and loads the linked binary into memory of the generated VSE. The execution of a trusted application is initiated in the generated VSE using a set of interfaces of the TR. The trusted application depends on the TR interfaces rather than the selected ISA binary.
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公开(公告)号:US20230325222A1
公开(公告)日:2023-10-12
申请号:US17715292
申请日:2022-04-07
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Sunil Kotian , Ye Li , Cyprien Laplace , Regis Duchesne , Alexander Fainkichen , Shruthi Hiriyuru
IPC: G06F9/455
CPC classification number: G06F9/45558 , G06F2009/4557 , G06F2009/45595
Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of lifecycle and recovery management for virtualized data processing unit (DPU) management operating systems. A DPU device executes a DPU management hypervisor that communicates with a management service over a network. The DPU management hypervisor virtualizes DPU hardware resources and passes control of the virtualized DPU hardware resources to a DPU management operating system (OS) virtual machine (VM). The DPU management hypervisor maintains control of a management network interface card (NIC) of the DPU device.
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公开(公告)号:US20230237010A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-27
申请号:US17580866
申请日:2022-01-21
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Regis Duchesne , Andrei Warkentin , Cyprien Laplace , Ye Li , Alexander Fainkichen , Shruthi Hiriyuru , Sunil Kotian
CPC classification number: G06F15/7842 , G06F9/30123
Abstract: Disclosed are various examples of providing provide efficient waiting for detection of memory value updates for Advanced RISC Machines (ARM) architectures. An ARM processor component instructs a memory agent to perform a processing action, and executes a waiting function. The waiting function ensures that the processing action is completed by the memory agent. The waiting function performs an exclusive load at a memory location, and a wait for event (WFE) instruction that causes the ARM processor component to wait in a low-power mode for an event register to be set. Once the event register is set, the waiting function completes and a second processing action is executed by the ARM processor component.
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公开(公告)号:US20230122654A1
公开(公告)日:2023-04-20
申请号:US18069851
申请日:2022-12-21
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Alexander Fainkichen , Ye Li , Regis Duchesne , Cyprien Laplace , Shruthi Hiriyuru , Sunil Kotian
Abstract: Techniques for enabling efficient guest OS access to PCIe configuration space are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor can reserve a single host physical memory page in the host physical memory of a host system and can populate the single host physical memory page with a value indicating non-presence of PCIe device functions. The hypervisor can then create, for each guest physical memory page in a guest physical memory of a virtual machine (VM) corresponding to a PCIe configuration space of an absent PCIe device function in the VM, a mapping in the hypervisor's second-level page tables that maps the guest physical memory page to the single host physical memory page.
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公开(公告)号:US11579918B2
公开(公告)日:2023-02-14
申请号:US17476090
申请日:2021-09-15
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Andrei Warkentin , Cyprien Laplace , Regis Duchesne , Ye Li , Alexander Fainkichen
IPC: G06F9/455 , G06F11/34 , G06F1/3287 , G06F1/3234 , G06F9/50 , G06F11/30 , G06F1/329 , G06F9/48
Abstract: Techniques for optimizing CPU usage in a host system based on VM guest OS power and performance management are provided. In one embodiment, a hypervisor of the host system can capture information from a VM guest OS that pertains to a target power or performance state set by the guest OS for a vCPU of the VM. The hypervisor can then perform, based on the captured information, one or more actions that align usage of host CPU resources by the vCPU with the target power or performance state.
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公开(公告)号:US11513825B2
公开(公告)日:2022-11-29
申请号:US16671086
申请日:2019-10-31
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Ye Li , David Ott , Cyprien Laplace , Andrei Warkentin , Alexander Fainkichen
Abstract: System and method for providing trusted execution environments uses a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) device of a computer system to receive and process commands to create and manage a trusted execution environment for a software process running in the computer system. The trusted execution environment created in the PCI device is then used to execute operations for the software process.
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公开(公告)号:US11210222B2
公开(公告)日:2021-12-28
申请号:US15878062
申请日:2018-01-23
Applicant: VMware, Inc.
Inventor: Ye Li , Cyprien Laplace , Andrei Warkentin , Alexander Fainkichen , Regis Duchesne
IPC: G06F12/0815 , G06F12/0808
Abstract: An example method of maintaining cache coherency in a virtualized computing system includes: trapping access to a memory page by guest software in a virtual machine at a hypervisor managing the virtual machine, where the memory page is not mapped in a second stage page table managed by the hypervisor; performing cache coherency maintenance for instruction and data caches of a central processing unit (CPU) in the virtualized computing system in response to the trap; mapping the memory page in the second stage page table with execute permission; and resuming execution of the virtual machine.
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