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From: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:07:28 +0900
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:21:20 -0300
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:

> > [not about this patch]
> > 
> > EPT accessed/dirty bits will be used for more things in the future.
> > Are there any rules for using these bits?
> > 
> > Same as other bits?
> 
> Do you mean hardware rules or KVM rules?

KVM rules.

Your concern was about "lock-less" v. "current EPT-A/D code".
My question was what we should care not to break the former
in the future.

	Takuya