From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 21:23:39 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <522885DB.2090204@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378383714-9723-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On 09/05/2013 08:21 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Page tables in a read-only memory slot will currently cause a triple
> fault when running with shadow paging, because the page walker uses
> gfn_to_hva and it fails on such a slot.
>
> TianoCore uses such a page table. The idea is that, on real hardware,
> the firmware can already run in 64-bit flat mode when setting up the
> memory controller. Real hardware seems to be fine with that as long as
> the accessed/dirty bits are set. Thus, this patch saves whether the
> slot is readonly, and later checks it when updating the accessed and
> dirty bits.
>
> Note that this scenario is not supported by NPT at all, as explained by
> comments in the code.
Reviewed-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 13:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-05 12:21 [PATCH v2] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-05 13:23 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2013-09-08 9:04 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-09 10:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
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