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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Khaled Ibrahim <kzm98@hotmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Handling page faults in KVM
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 06:36:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C2818A0.5080009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <COL112-W42A322AC044CC15766602CB2C70@phx.gbl>

On 06/25/2010 04:03 AM, Khaled Ibrahim wrote:
>
> Apparently, not all page faults on the guest result in a page fault in the host. I would like to intercept page faults on the guest that are not handled by the host.
> I am not quite sure where (in the source code) can I monitor that?
> Can any one give me code pointers to look at?
>   		 	   		
>    

You need to disable ept or not, and on Intel, load the kvm_intel module 
with bypass_guest_pf=0.  With that, kvm will intercept all guest page 
faults.

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


      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-28  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-25  1:03 Handling page faults in KVM Khaled Ibrahim
2010-06-28  3:36 ` Avi Kivity [this message]

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