Re: [RFC v5 00/86] Memory API

Jan Kiszka
2011-07-21T14:34:55Z

On 2011-07-21 16:31, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/21/2011 05:19 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> Makes some sense. I even wonder if this isn't a KVM deficit and should
>>>> be handled there when a logged region is unmapped.
>>>
>>> What do you mean? There is a known issue with kvm here, this is a just
>>> workaround.
>>
>> Then the logic indeed belongs to kvm-all.c, not memory.c.
>>
>
> Does kvm-all.c have all the information?

If should as it keeps a record of the active slots with the logging
flag. So, if a slot with logging on is changed, the dirty bits should be
set.

>
> btw, where do you see the issue? which guest?
>
> Somehow you see a lot more problems than I do.

Stock OpenSUSE 11.4 with grub2 in graphical mode, -vga cirrus.

Jan

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