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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Lok Kwong Yan <loyan@syr.edu>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Does KVM use one EPT table per Guest CR3?
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:47:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D04A82F.4020808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <562744ED4DABB345A26E01CB5D34F51031930CCE@BL2PRD0103MB033.prod.exchangelabs.com>

On 12/10/2010 09:44 AM, Lok Kwong Yan wrote:
> Thanks again.
>
> I understand that the table can change over time, but it doesn't explain why the top-most table gets zapped and seemingly recreated with a different page frame (and thus the different EPTP values) so frequently. Why isn't the table being updated instead of being destroyed and then recreated? Which piece of the puzzle and I missing?

When the physical memory map changes the EPT tables are zapped.  This 
happens when PCI BARs are remapped, or when VGA remaps the framebuffer 
windows at 0xa0000-0xc0000.  Both of these happen during boot.  Do you 
see zaps happening after boot is complete?

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-12 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-07 21:47 Does KVM use one EPT table per Guest CR3? Lok Kwong Yan
2010-12-07 21:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-12-07 22:00   ` Lok Kwong Yan
2010-12-07 22:11     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-12-10  7:44       ` Lok Kwong Yan
2010-12-12 10:47         ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-12-16 22:14           ` Lok Kwong Yan
2010-12-17 15:24             ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-19 14:31               ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-22 21:56                 ` Lok Kwong Yan
2011-02-10 20:47                 ` Lok Kwong Yan

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