From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: trace the events of mmu_notifier
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:26:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <504DB22F.4020609@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504DAE34.1060402@redhat.com>
On 09/10/2012 05:09 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/07/2012 09:16 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> mmu_notifier is the interface to broadcast the mm events to KVM, the
>> tracepoints introduced in this patch can trace all these events, it is
>> very helpful for us to notice and fix the bug caused by mm
>
> There is nothing kvm specific here. Perhaps this can be made generic
> (with a mm parameter so we can filter by process).
Hmm, i would like to put these tracepoints in the mmu-lock then we can clearly
know the sequence between mm and kvm mmu. It is useful for us to detect the
issue/race between them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-10 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-07 6:16 [PATCH v2] KVM: trace the events of mmu_notifier Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-10 9:09 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-10 9:26 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2012-09-14 5:59 ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-09-16 9:58 ` Avi Kivity
2012-09-18 8:46 ` Xiao Guangrong
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