From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:59:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47891C10.8060803@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080109181743.GB303@dmt>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Export nukeing of shadow MMU pages through an ioctl, required for
> consistency on balloon inflate.
>
>
With mmu notifiers (posted two minutes after this) shadow is implicitly
synced with userspace. Since it seems to be progressing rapidly, I
won't apply this patch in the hope that mmu notifiers can be ready for
2.6.25.
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Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 18:17 [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2008-01-12 19:59 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
[not found] ` <47891C10.8060803-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-12 20:28 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <47892303.6030602-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-12 20:57 ` Avi Kivity
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