From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.or>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM support for 1GB pages v2
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:16:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49F6D767.9050801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240574327-21575-1-git-send-email-joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Joerg Roedel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this is the second version of the patches implementing support for 1GB
> pages in KVM. There are too many changes to the first version to mention
> them all here. The core support was rewritten to work with mapping
> levels instead of page sizes. This was the main part of the change.
> The patches still only support KVM with nested paging enabled
What is missing to get shadow paging working with this? I don't think
it's particularly important (it will be pretty hard to find a GB page
without any shadowed pages in it), but I don't like arbitrary constraints.
walk_addr() needs to change to support GB pages, did I miss it in the
patchset?
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-28 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-24 11:58 [PATCH 0/7] KVM support for 1GB pages v2 Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 1/7] hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 2/7] kvm: change memslot data structures for multiple hugepage sizes Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] kvm/mmu: rename is_largepage_backed to mapping_level Joerg Roedel
2009-04-27 17:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2009-04-28 9:49 ` Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 4/7] kvm/mmu: make rmap code aware of mapping levels Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 5/7] kvm/mmu: make direct mapping paths " Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 6/7] kvm/mmu: enable gbpages by increasing nr of pagesizes Joerg Roedel
2009-04-24 11:58 ` [PATCH 7/7] kvm x86: report 1GB page support to userspace Joerg Roedel
2009-04-28 10:10 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-28 10:16 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-04-28 10:20 ` [PATCH 0/7] KVM support for 1GB pages v2 Joerg Roedel
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