From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@linux.intel.com>,
gleb@kernel.org, linux@arm.linux.org.uk, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] KVM: VMX: Add PML support in VMX
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:02:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150203160256.GF19731@potion.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54D0EBC8.6030301@redhat.com>
2015-02-03 16:39+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
>
>
> On 03/02/2015 16:18, Radim Krčmář wrote:
> > (I see the same code in handle_ept_violation(), but wasn't that needed
> > just because of a hardware error?)
>
> That was how I read it initially, but actually that means: "this
> statement could be broken if the processor has that erratum".
Thanks, that was a nice ruse for the original bug :)
> >> +static void vmx_slot_enable_log_dirty(struct kvm *kvm,
> >> + struct kvm_memory_slot *slot)
> >> +{
> >> + kvm_mmu_slot_leaf_clear_dirty(kvm, slot);
> >
> > (New slot contains dirty pages?)
>
> New slots contain clean pages as far as the KVM dirty log is concerned.
>
> In the case of PML, note that D=1 does not mean the page is dirty. It
> only means that writes will not be logged by PML. The page may thus
> also have logging disabled.
Yeah, it would be a problem if we had dirty pages at the beginning, but
I don't think it is possible as was too lazy to check.
(It's not important and I wanted to do this review today :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-03 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-28 2:54 [PATCH 0/6] KVM: VMX: Page Modification Logging (PML) support Kai Huang
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] KVM: Rename kvm_arch_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked to be more generic for log dirty Kai Huang
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] KVM: MMU: Add mmu help functions to support PML Kai Huang
2015-02-03 17:34 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-02-05 5:59 ` Kai Huang
2015-02-05 14:51 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 3/6] KVM: MMU: Explicitly set D-bit for writable spte Kai Huang
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 4/6] KVM: x86: Change parameter of kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access Kai Huang
2015-02-03 16:28 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 5/6] KVM: x86: Add new dirty logging kvm_x86_ops for PML Kai Huang
2015-02-03 15:53 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-02-05 6:29 ` Kai Huang
2015-02-05 14:52 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-01-28 2:54 ` [PATCH 6/6] KVM: VMX: Add PML support in VMX Kai Huang
2015-02-03 15:18 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-02-03 15:39 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-03 16:02 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2015-02-05 6:23 ` Kai Huang
2015-02-05 15:04 ` Radim Krčmář
2015-02-06 0:22 ` Kai Huang
2015-02-06 0:28 ` Kai Huang
2015-02-06 16:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
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