From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] kvm: calculate correct gfn for small host pages which emulates large guest pages
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 14:23:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFD04B4.6050409@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BFCE053.6040505@cn.fujitsu.com>
On 05/26/2010 11:48 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> In Document/kvm/mmu.txt:
> gfn:
> Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
> page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.
>
> But in function FNAME(fetch)(), sp->gfn is incorrect when one of following
> situations occurred:
> 1) guest is 32bit paging and the guest PDE maps a 4-MByte page
> (backed by 4k host pages), FNAME(fetch)() miss handling the quadrant.
>
> And if guest use pse-36, "table_gfn = gpte_to_gfn(gw->ptes[level - delta]);"
> is incorrect.
> 2) guest is long mode paging and the guest PDPTE maps a 1-GByte page
> (backed by 4k or 2M host pages).
>
> So we fix it to suit to the document and suit to the code which
> requires sp->gfn correct when sp->role.direct=1.
>
> We use the goal mapping gfn(gw->gfn) to calculate the base page frame
> for linear translations, it is simple and easy to be understood.
>
Applied, thanks.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2010-05-07 8:52 ` [RFC PATCH] kvm: calculate correct gfn for small host pages which emulates large guest pages Lai Jiangshan
2010-05-10 8:55 ` Avi Kivity
2010-05-26 8:48 ` [RESEND PATCH 1/3] " Lai Jiangshan
2010-05-26 11:23 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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