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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 16/19] KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 05:18:35 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110707081835.GC8334@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E14B6D6.4020902@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:26:14AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 07/07/2011 02:08 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> >> +static void free_pages_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
> >> +{
> >> +	struct kvm_mmu_page *next, *sp;
> >> +
> >> +	sp = container_of(head, struct kvm_mmu_page, rcu);
> >> +	while (sp) {
> >> +		if (!list_empty(&sp->link))
> >> +			next = list_first_entry(&sp->link,
> >> +				      struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
> >> +		else
> >> +			next = NULL;
> >> +		kvm_mmu_free_page(sp);
> >> +		sp = next;
> >> +	}
> >> +}
> > 
> > There is no need for this while loop.
> > 
> 
> The while loop is needed, since many shadow pages can be freed together in
> the rcu context, on commit_zap_page path, we only remove the list head, and
> the shadow page is still listed.

Right.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07  8:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-30  8:19 [PATCH v3 01/19] KVM: MMU: fix walking shadow page table Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:19 ` [PATCH v3 02/19] KVM: MMU: do not update slot bitmap if spte is nonpresent Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:20 ` [PATCH v3 03/19] KVM: x86: introduce vcpu_mmio_gva_to_gpa to cleanup the code Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:20 ` [PATCH v3 04/19] KVM: MMU: cache mmio info on page fault path Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-05 19:04   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06  1:17     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:21 ` [PATCH v3 05/19] KVM: MMU: optimize to handle dirty bit Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-05 19:27   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06  1:22     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-06 16:51       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06 19:12         ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-07  8:15           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-06-30  8:21 ` [PATCH v3 06/19] KVM: MMU: cleanup for FNAME(fetch) Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:22 ` [PATCH v3 07/19] KVM: MMU: rename 'pt_write' to 'emulate' Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:22 ` [PATCH v3 08/19] KVM: MMU: count used shadow pages on prepareing path Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:23 ` [PATCH v3 09/19] KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:23 ` [PATCH v3 10/19] KVM: MMU: remove bypass_guest_pf Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:24 ` [PATCH v3 11/19] KVM: MMU: filter out the mmio pfn from the fault pfn Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-06 17:17   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06 19:13     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:24 ` [PATCH v3 12/19] KVM: MMU: abstract some functions to handle " Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:25 ` [PATCH v3 13/19] KVM: MMU: introduce the rules to modify shadow page table Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:25 ` [PATCH v3 14/19] KVM: MMU: clean up spte updating and clearing Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-06 17:39   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06 19:18     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-07  8:16       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-07  9:30         ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:26 ` [PATCH v3 15/19] KVM: MMU: do not need atomicly to set/clear spte Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:26 ` [PATCH v3 16/19] KVM: MMU: lockless walking shadow page table Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-06 18:08   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06 19:26     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-07  8:18       ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2011-06-30  8:26 ` [PATCH v3 17/19] KVM: MMU: reorganize struct kvm_shadow_walk_iterator Xiao Guangrong
2011-06-30  8:27 ` [PATCH v3 18/19] KVM: MMU: mmio page fault support Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-06 18:52   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-07-06 19:59     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-07-07  8:49       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-06-30  8:28 ` [PATCH v3 19/19] KVM: MMU: trace mmio page fault Xiao Guangrong

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