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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	riel@redhat.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, mtosatti@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a guest if page is swapped out.
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:33:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C73BC02.7090606@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100824122844.GA10499@redhat.com>

  On 08/24/2010 03:28 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 07:17:20PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> +static int apf_put_user(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 val)
>>> +{
>>> +	if (unlikely(vcpu->arch.apf_memslot_ver !=
>>> +		     vcpu->kvm->memslot_version)) {
>>> +		u64 gpa = vcpu->arch.apf_msr_val&   ~0x3f;
>>> +		unsigned long addr;
>>> +		int offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
>>> +
>>> +		addr = gfn_to_hva(vcpu->kvm, gpa>>   PAGE_SHIFT);
>>> +		vcpu->arch.apf_data = (u32 __user *)(addr + offset);
>>> +		if (kvm_is_error_hva(addr)) {
>>> +			vcpu->arch.apf_data = NULL;
>>> +			return -EFAULT;
>>> +		}
>>> +	}
>>> +
>>> +	return put_user(val, vcpu->arch.apf_data);
>>> +}
>> This nice cache needs to be outside apf to reduce complexity for
>> reviewers and since it is useful for others.
>>
>> Would be good to have memslot-cached kvm_put_guest() and kvm_get_guest().
>>
> Something like this? (only compile tested)

Yes, exactly.

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-24 12:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-19 15:30 [PATCH v5 00/12] KVM: Add host swap event notifications for PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] Move kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() from kvmclock.c to kvm.c Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 15:22   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-23 15:29     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] Add async PF initialization to PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 19:52   ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-23 15:26   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-23 15:35     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 16:08       ` Christoph Lameter
2010-08-23 16:10         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 16:19         ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] Provide special async page fault handler when async PF capability is detected Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 15:48   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-23 15:52     ` Rik van Riel
2010-08-23 16:22       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24  7:31     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:02       ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] Export __get_user_pages_fast Gleb Natapov
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] Add get_user_pages() variant that fails if major fault is required Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 15:50   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] Maintain memslot version number Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 15:53   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a guest if page is swapped out Gleb Natapov
2010-08-23 16:17   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24  7:52     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:04       ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24 12:28     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24 12:33       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-07-19 15:30 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] Retry fault before vmentry Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:25   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24  9:33     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:38       ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:31 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] Handle async PF in non preemptable context Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:30   ` Avi Kivity
2010-08-24  9:36     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:46       ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:31 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] Let host know whether the guest can handle async PF in non-userspace context Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:31   ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-19 15:31 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] Send async PF when guest is not in userspace too Gleb Natapov
2010-08-24  9:36   ` Avi Kivity

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