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From: lersek@redhat.com (Laszlo Ersek)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 17:55:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F49610.6090000@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54F49418.5070108@redhat.com>

On 03/02/15 17:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> Also, we may want to invalidate the cache for dirty pages before
> returning the dirty bitmap, and probably should do that directly in
> KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG.

"I agree."

If KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG is supposed to be atomic fetch and clear (from
userspace's aspect), then the cache invalidation should be an atomic
part of it too (from the same aspect).

(Sorry if I just said something incredibly stupid.)

Laszlo

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-02 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-19 10:54 [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 1/3] arm64: KVM: handle some sysreg writes in EL2 Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-03 17:59   ` Mario Smarduch
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 2/3] arm64: KVM: mangle MAIR register to prevent uncached guest mappings Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 10:54 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 3/3] arm64: KVM: keep trapping of VM sysreg writes enabled Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 13:40   ` Marc Zyngier
2015-02-19 13:44     ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 15:19       ` Marc Zyngier
2015-02-19 15:22         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 14:50 ` [RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings Alexander Graf
2015-02-19 14:56   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 15:27     ` Alexander Graf
2015-02-19 15:31       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 16:57 ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-19 17:19   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-19 17:55     ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-19 17:57       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-02-20 14:29         ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-20 14:37           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-20 15:36             ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-24 14:55               ` Andrew Jones
2015-02-24 17:47                 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-02-24 19:12                   ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-02 16:31                   ` Christoffer Dall
2015-03-02 16:47                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-02 16:55                       ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2015-03-02 17:05                         ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-02 16:48                     ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-03  2:20                     ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-04 11:35                       ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 11:50                         ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-04 12:29                           ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 12:43                             ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-04 14:12                               ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-04 14:29                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-04 14:34                                   ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-04 17:03                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-04 17:28                                     ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 10:12                                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-05 11:04                                         ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 11:52                                           ` Peter Maydell
2015-03-05 12:03                                             ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 12:26                                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-05 14:58                                                 ` Catalin Marinas
2015-03-05 17:43                                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-03-06 21:08                                                     ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-09 14:26                                                       ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-09 15:33                                                         ` Mario Smarduch
2015-03-05 19:13                                                   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-06 20:33                         ` Mario Smarduch
2015-02-19 18:44       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2015-03-03 17:34 ` Alexander Graf
2015-03-03 18:13   ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-03-03 20:58     ` Andrew Jones
2015-03-03 18:32 ` Catalin Marinas

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