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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 v6 06/12] Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery.
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 14:58:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CADC3F2.2050506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286207794-16120-7-git-send-email-gleb@redhat.com>

  On 10/04/2010 05:56 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> +
> +	Physical address points to 32 bit memory location that will be written
> +	to by the hypervisor at the time of asynchronous page fault injection to
> +	indicate type of asynchronous page fault. Value of 1 means that the page
> +	referred to by the page fault is not present. Value 2 means that the
> +	page is now available.

"The must not enable interrupts before the reason is read, or it may be 
overwritten by another apf".

Document the fact that disabling interrupts disables APFs.

How does the guest distinguish betweem APFs and ordinary page faults?

What's the role of cr2?

When disabling APF, all pending APFs are flushed and may or may not get 
a completion.

Is a "page available" notification guaranteed to arrive on the same vcpu 
that took the "page not present" fault?

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I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-07 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 88+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-04 15:56 [PATCH v6 00/12] KVM: Add host swap event notifications for PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 01/12] Add get_user_pages() variant that fails if major fault is required Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 02/12] Halt vcpu if page it tries to access is swapped out Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  1:20   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 14:59   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:50     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-06 10:52       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07  9:54         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:48           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 11:15     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07  9:50   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07  9:52     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 13:24     ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-07 13:29       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:47     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:30       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-09 18:32         ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:30           ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10  7:29         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 15:55           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 15:56             ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 16:17               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 16:16             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 03/12] Retry fault before vmentry Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05 15:54   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 11:07     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:20       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 18:44         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-08 16:07           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 12:29   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:21     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:42       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:35         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 04/12] Add memory slot versioning and use it to provide fast guest write interface Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  1:29   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 16:57   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 11:14     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:38       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 20:08         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 10:00           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 15:42             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-07 16:03               ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 16:20                 ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:23                   ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:48                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 12:31   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 05/12] Move kvm_smp_prepare_boot_cpu() from kvmclock.c to kvm.c Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 06/12] Add PV MSR to enable asynchronous page faults delivery Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:42   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:53     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:47       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 13:27         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:58   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-10-07 17:59     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:43       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 07/12] Add async PF initialization to PV guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:34   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 18:25   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:55     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-06 14:45       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 20:05         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 12:50   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-08  7:54     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:44       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 08/12] Handle async PF in a guest Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 13:10   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:14     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 17:18       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-07 17:48         ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-07 18:03         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-09 18:48           ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10  7:56             ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:40               ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 12:32     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 12:38       ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-10 13:22         ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 09/12] Inject asynchronous page fault into a PV guest if page is swapped out Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:36   ` Rik van Riel
2010-10-05 19:00   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:42     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 10/12] Handle async PF in non preemptable context Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05 19:51   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-06 10:41     ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-10 14:25       ` Gleb Natapov
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 11/12] Let host know whether the guest can handle async PF in non-userspace context Gleb Natapov
2010-10-07 13:36   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-04 15:56 ` [PATCH v6 12/12] Send async PF when guest is not in userspace too Gleb Natapov
2010-10-05  2:37   ` Rik van Riel

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