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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Ahern" <daahern@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] KVM: MMU: move local TLB flush to mmu_set_spte
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:21:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D441F5.5000707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080918213336.548424061@localhost.localdomain>

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Since the sync page path can collapse flushes.
>
> Also only flush if the spte was writable before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
>
> @@ -1241,9 +1239,12 @@ static void mmu_set_spte(struct kvm_vcpu
>  		}
>  	}
>  	if (set_spte(vcpu, shadow_pte, pte_access, user_fault, write_fault,
> -		      dirty, largepage, gfn, pfn, speculative))
> +		      dirty, largepage, gfn, pfn, speculative)) {
>  		if (write_fault)
>  			*ptwrite = 1;
> +		if (was_writeble)
> +			kvm_x86_ops->tlb_flush(vcpu);
> +	}
>  
>   

I think we had cases where the spte.pfn contents changed, for example 
when a large page was replaced by a normal page, and also:

        } else if (pfn != spte_to_pfn(*shadow_pte)) {


-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-20  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-18 21:27 [patch 00/10] out of sync shadow v2 Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 01/10] KVM: MMU: split mmu_set_spte Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 02/10] KVM: MMU: move local TLB flush to mmu_set_spte Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  0:21   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 03/10] KVM: MMU: do not write-protect large mappings Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  0:29   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-21  0:41     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 04/10] KVM: MMU: mode specific sync_page Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  0:44   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 05/10] KVM: MMU: sync roots on mmu reload Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 06/10] KVM: x86: trap invlpg Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  0:53   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-21  0:43     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 07/10] KVM: MMU: mmu_parent_walk Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  0:56   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-21  0:44     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 20:30       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 22:04         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 08/10] KVM: MMU: awareness of new kvm_mmu_zap_page behaviour Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 09/10] KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core v2 Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  1:22   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-21  0:45     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 20:41       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 21:55         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 22:51           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-23 10:46             ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 10:46           ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-23 13:17             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-18 21:27 ` [patch 10/10] KVM: MMU: speed up mmu_unsync_walk Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  1:26   ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-21  0:45     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 20:43       ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-18 22:36 ` [patch 00/10] out of sync shadow v2 Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-20  1:28   ` Avi Kivity
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-21  0:10 [patch 02/10] KVM: MMU: move local TLB flush to mmu_set_spte Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 20:26 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-22 21:56   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2008-09-22 20:28 ` Avi Kivity

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