From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com.br>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/6] kvm-userland.git mmu notifier compat
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:38:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080725143834.GD8217@duo.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725143203.GC8217@duo.random>
This patch to kvm-userland.git allows to build the tree on older
kernels without mmu notifiers.
Unfortunately emulating mmu notifiers with kprobes was feasible only
for do_wp_page because it has a special property where calling the
spte invalidate before the pte invalidate is ok thanks to the
guarantee of that pte being wprotect, not to tell about the start/end
functions. So old kernels without mmu notifiers will have to keep the
page pinned I'm afraid. So to remove the page pin in future patches in
a backwards compatible way, we'll have to go with #ifdef MMU_NOTIFIER
in kvm.git code I'm afraid and this should be all that's needed on the
kvm-userland side. Adding all page pinning needed by old kernels
through hack-module.awk sounds a bit extreme to me, even if it would
result in cleaner kvm.git code... anyway I think the below patch will
be still needed to build regardless how we decide to handle the future
changes.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
diff --git a/kernel/include-compat/linux/mmu_notifier.h b/kernel/include-compat/linux/mmu_notifier.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a6db4ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kernel/include-compat/linux/mmu_notifier.h
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#ifndef _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
+#define _LINUX_MMU_NOTIFIER_H
+
+struct mmu_notifier {};
+
+#endif
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-25 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-25 14:24 [PATCH 1/6] kvm.git mmu notifier patch Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-25 14:26 ` [PATCH 2/6] kvm.git allow reading aliases with mmu_lock Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-25 14:32 ` [PATCH 3/6] kvm.git allow browsing memslots " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-25 14:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-07-25 14:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] kvm.git handle reserved pages as mmio Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-25 14:44 ` [PATCH 6/6] kvm.git allow reserved pages to be used as guest phys ram Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-29 12:49 ` [PATCH 4/6] kvm-userland.git mmu notifier compat Avi Kivity
2008-07-29 13:03 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-29 13:30 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-29 13:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-28 21:51 ` [PATCH 3/6] kvm.git allow browsing memslots with mmu_lock Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-28 22:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-07-28 21:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] kvm.git allow reading aliases " Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-28 21:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] kvm.git mmu notifier patch Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-28 21:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-07-29 9:31 ` Avi Kivity
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