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From: Ian Molton <ian.molton@codethink.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Understanding KVM
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:04:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C0DE3B.8060008@codethink.co.uk> (raw)

Hi,

Im trying to figure out how (on, say, x86), qemu (1.3, git) knows when 
the guest has accessed a page - in particular, on a framebuffer.

It looks like its done via dirty page logs, which are maintained by the 
host kernel, so probably this is a kernel question, more than a qemu one.

Is this the case? if so, where do the bits in the dirty bitmap get set? 
I cant find anything in the kernel that seems to do much with it, other 
than to copy the bitmap to userspace.

-Ian

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