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From: Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] extend page_track for external usage
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 01:03:36 -0700
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 09:44:05AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 26/10/2016 09:39, Neo Jia wrote:
> > > The page_track implementation is almost ready for external usage, my
> > > changes here are quite trivial. I guess the external user like your
> > > vendor driver can call them directly.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, I don't think the current implementation is accessible to us,
> > could you please change?
> 
> How so?
> 
> > > BTW, do you also have to shadow the device page-tables? Per my previous
> > > understanding you don't have to.
> > 
> > It is not for the page table, we have other features will require such wp
> > capabilities to trap guest memory access.
> 
> Can you please expand?

Sure, this wp capabilities will allow us to check GPU command stream for VMs.

Thanks,
Neo

> 
> Paolo