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On 06/26/2010 02:25 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> We will soon start and replace instructions from the text section with
> other, paravirtualized versions. To ease the readability of those patches
> I split out the generic looping and magic page mapping code out.
>
> This patch still only contains stubs. But at least it loops through the
> text section :).
>
>
> +
> +static void kvm_check_ins(u32 *inst)
> +{
> +	u32 _inst = *inst;
> +	u32 inst_no_rt = _inst&  ~KVM_MASK_RT;
> +	u32 inst_rt = _inst&  KVM_MASK_RT;
> +
> +	switch (inst_no_rt) {
> +	}
> +
> +	switch (_inst) {
> +	}
> +
> +	flush_icache_range((ulong)inst, (ulong)inst + 4);
> +}
>    

Shouldn't we flush only if we patched something?

> +
> +static void kvm_use_magic_page(void)
> +{
> +	u32 *p;
> +	u32 *start, *end;
> +
> +	/* Tell the host to map the magic page to -4096 on all CPUs */
> +
> +	on_each_cpu(kvm_map_magic_page, NULL, 1);
> +
> +	/* Now loop through all code and find instructions */
> +
> +	start = (void*)_stext;
> +	end = (void*)_etext;
> +
> +	for (p = start; p<  end; p++)
> +		kvm_check_ins(p);
> +}
> +
>    

Or, flush the entire thing here.


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