From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: KVM: MMU: nuke shadowed pgtable pages and pte's on memslot destruction
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:48:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487772C3.4070808@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080710234931.GA5295@dmt.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:58:24PM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>
>>> This (and its friends) ought to be static inlines.
>>>
>>> On the other hand, don't the other arches have to flush their tlbs?
>>> Xiantao/Hollis? So maybe this function needs to be renamed
>>> kvm_flush_shadow() and implemented across the board.
>>>
>> Agreed, I think that's the right approach.
>>
>
> Ok, here it is, Hollis and Xiantao can you fill in the blanks?
>
> ----------
>
> Flush the shadow mmu before removing regions to avoid stale entries.
>
>
Applied, thanks.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-11 14:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-04 1:06 KVM: MMU: nuke shadowed pgtable pages and pte's on memslot destruction Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-05 17:25 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-05 19:23 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-05 21:15 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-07 17:31 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-07 19:58 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-10 14:42 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 18:58 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-07-10 23:49 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-11 14:48 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-07-21 21:03 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-07-21 21:34 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-21 22:22 ` Hollis Blanchard
2008-07-22 5:18 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-10 23:54 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-11 15:09 ` Avi Kivity
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