From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: add KVM_SYNC_SHADOW_WITH_USER ioctl (v2) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 21:59:12 +0200 Message-ID: <47891C10.8060803@qumranet.com> References: <20080109181743.GB303@dmt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Marcelo Tosatti Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080109181743.GB303@dmt> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org 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. -- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace