From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] Fix some mmu/emulator atomicity issues
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:48:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1266238109-30280-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> (raw)
Currently when we emulate a locked operation into a shadowed guest page
table, we perform a write rather than a true atomic. This is indicated
by the "emulating exchange as write" message that shows up in dmesg.
In addition, the pte prefetch operation during invlpg suffered from a
race. This was fixed by removing the operation.
This patchset fixes both issues and reinstates pte prefetch on invlpg.
Avi Kivity (4):
KVM: MMU: Consolidate two guest pte reads in kvm_mmu_pte_write()
KVM: Make locked operations truly atomic
KVM: Don't follow an atmoic operation by a non-atomic one
KVM: MMU: Reinstate pte prefetch on invlpg
arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 +
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 78 +++++++++++++++---------------
arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 15 ++++++
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
4 files changed, 129 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 12:48 Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-02-15 12:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: MMU: Consolidate two guest pte reads in kvm_mmu_pte_write() Avi Kivity
2010-02-15 12:48 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Make locked operations truly atomic Avi Kivity
2010-02-15 12:48 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: Don't follow an atmoic operation by a non-atomic one Avi Kivity
2010-02-15 12:48 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: MMU: Reinstate pte prefetch on invlpg Avi Kivity
2010-02-16 8:40 ` Avi Kivity
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