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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>, Radim Krcmar <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@gooogle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Fix page ageing bugs
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:18:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54208422.8010209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411415878-30346-1-git-send-email-andreslc@google.com>

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On 09/22/2014 03:57 PM, Andres Lagar-Cavilla wrote:
> 1. We were calling clear_flush_young_notify in unmap_one, but we
> are within an mmu notifier invalidate range scope. The spte exists
> no more (due to range_start) and the accessed bit info has already
> been propagated (due to kvm_pfn_set_accessed). Simply call 
> clear_flush_young.
> 
> 2. We clear_flush_young on a primary MMU PMD, but this may be
> mapped as a collection of PTEs by the secondary MMU (e.g. during
> log-dirty). This required expanding the interface of the
> clear_flush_young mmu notifier, so a lot of code has been trivially
> touched.
> 
> 3. In the absence of shadow_accessed_mask (e.g. EPT A bit), we
> emulate the access bit by blowing the spte. This requires proper
> synchronizing with MMU notifier consumers, like every other removal
> of spte's does.

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 19:57 [PATCH] kvm: Fix page ageing bugs Andres Lagar-Cavilla
2014-09-22 20:18 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
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2014-09-22 18:34 Andres Lagar-Cavilla

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