From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] KVM: x86: tag the instructions which are used to write page table
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:32:35 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110822143235.GA4797@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E4A1117.1030608@cn.fujitsu.com>
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 02:41:27PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> The idea is from Avi:
> | tag instructions that are typically used to modify the page tables, and
> | drop shadow if any other instruction is used.
> | The list would include, I'd guess, and, or, bts, btc, mov, xchg, cmpxchg,
> | and cmpxchg8b.
>
> This patch is used to tag the instructions and in the later path, shadow page
> is dropped if it is written by other instructions
What is the advantage of doing this again? What is the point of
dropping shadow if the instruction is emulated?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-22 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-16 6:40 [PATCH 01/11] KVM: MMU: avoid pte_list_desc running out in kvm_mmu_pte_write Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:41 ` [PATCH 02/11] KVM: x86: tag the instructions which are used to write page table Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-22 14:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2011-08-22 14:36 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-16 6:42 ` [PATCH 03/11] KVM: x86: retry non-page-table writing instruction Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-22 19:59 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-22 20:21 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-22 20:42 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-16 6:42 ` [PATCH 04/11] KVM: x86: cleanup port-in/port-out emulated Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:43 ` [PATCH 05/11] KVM: MMU: do not mark access bit on pte write path Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:44 ` [PATCH 06/11] KVM: MMU: cleanup FNAME(invlpg) Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:44 ` [PATCH 07/11] KVM: MMU: fast prefetch spte on invlpg path Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-22 22:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-23 1:50 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:45 ` [PATCH 08/11] KVM: MMU: remove unnecessary kvm_mmu_free_some_pages Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:45 ` [PATCH 09/11] KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_pte_write function Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:46 ` [PATCH 10/11] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-16 6:46 ` [PATCH 11/11] KVM: MMU: improve write flooding detected Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-23 8:00 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-23 10:55 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-23 12:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-23 16:32 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-23 19:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-23 20:16 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-24 20:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-25 2:04 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-25 4:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 13:21 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-25 14:06 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 14:07 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 7:40 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-25 7:57 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-25 13:47 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-26 3:18 ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-08-26 10:53 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-08-26 14:24 ` Xiao Guangrong
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