Re: mmiotrace bug: recursive probe hit

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
>>
>> For kmemcheck, I'd prefer the per-CPU page tables suggested by Ingo.
>> I'm having hard time understanding why that's a "ugly hack" compared
>> to using kvm for this...
>>   
>
> It's not an ugly hack, but will be very very difficult.  With mmu 
> notifiers it's probably doable though:
>
> - the linux page tables are never loaded into cr3, but rather kept as 
> a reference
> - page faults are by instantiating ptes into shadow page tables (which 
> track the linux page tables)
> - mmu notifiers are used to drop shadow ptes when the linux ptes change
>

Actually, paravirt_ops is a much better match, as it also provides hooks 
for setting cr3.  I think you can implement per-cpu pagetables using 
paravirt_ops without modifying core mm code at all.

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