Re: [RESEND PATCH v7 3/4] arm: dirty log write protect management support

[Mario Smarduch <m.smarduch@samsung.com>]

On 06/04/2014 11:55 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 05:11 AM, Mario Smarduch wrote:
> 
>> +	spin_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>> +
>> +	for (i = 0; i < n / sizeof(long); i++) {
>> +		unsigned long mask;
>> +		gfn_t offset;
>> +
>> +		if (!dirty_bitmap[i])
>> +			continue;
>> +
>> +		is_dirty = true;
>> +
>> +		mask = xchg(&dirty_bitmap[i], 0);
>> +		dirty_bitmap_buffer[i] = mask;
>> +
>> +		offset = i * BITS_PER_LONG;
>> +		kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked(kvm, memslot, offset, mask);
>> +	}
>> +	if (is_dirty)
>> +		kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);
> 
> You moved the flush into mmu-lock. Please do not :).
> 
> See commit 198c74f43f0f5473f99967aead30ddc622804bc1
> 

Thanks for reviewing, I revised to pick up your version.

Functionally there should be no impact on ARM, the
TLB flush function is different.

- Mario