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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 19/38] KVM: PPC: Add cache flush on page map
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:23:53 -0500
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On 08/14/2012 06:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we map a page that wasn't icache cleared before, do so when first
> mapping it in KVM using the same information bits as the Linux mapping
> logic. That way we are 100% sure that any page we map does not have stale
> entries in the icache.

We're not really 100% sure of that -- this only handles the case where
the kernel does the dirtying, not when it's done by QEMU or the guest.

-Scott