From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aashish Mittal Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 13:45:25 +0000 Subject: Mapping of Shared Page in e500 Powerpc kvm Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org Hi I'm working on powerpc e500 machine (Freescale P2020RDB machine) and using the paravirtualization guest support available inside kvm and wanted to some bookkeeping of my own on the shared page and from what i understood is that a single tlb entry is reserved for the shared page (magic page) when running the guest which is never preempted or flushed but when i tried printing out the dtlb misses on this shared page it show me a large number of dtlb misses on this shared page which means that this page is being preempted or flushed out in some way . Can someone pleas e clarify this situation if i'm understanding something wrong or is it a bug ? Thanks Aashish Mittal