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From: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:35:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51EE7892.9070908@bitsync.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51EE6DFD.6080701@redhat.com>

On 23.07.2013 13:50, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 22/07/2013 22:57, Zlatko Calusic ha scritto:
>> I'm getting a lot of these in kernel 3.11.0-rc1:
>>
>> Jul 19 19:53:06 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>> Jul 19 22:37:47 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>> Jul 20 00:07:24 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>> Jul 20 00:11:04 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>> Jul 20 00:39:14 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>> Jul 21 00:25:32 ps kernel: kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation
>> wraparound
>>
>> There seems to be one line in the kernel log for every reboot of a WinXP
>> guest, and I'm getting a bit bored with it. I don't understand what
>> those messages mean? What can I do to stop them flooding the log?
>>
>> Please Cc: (not subscribed)
>
> The log message would let us correlate any reports with a new
> optimization (added in 3.11).  We will probably downgrade it to
> KERN_DEBUG before 3.11 goes out (or otherwise cause it to disappear), in
> the meanwhile it's harmless.
>

Ah, OK then. Thanks for the info. And certainly thanks for the great 
virtualization platform!

Best regards,
-- 
Zlatko


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-23 12:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-22 20:57 kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound Zlatko Calusic
2013-07-23 11:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-23 12:35   ` Zlatko Calusic [this message]
2014-12-21  6:28 ` Michael Tokarev
2014-12-21 16:13   ` Paolo Bonzini

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