From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: MMU: track dirty page in speculative path properly
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:24:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3D11C6.4000101@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100713220551.GB6370@amt.cnet>
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:45:27PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> In speculative path, the page is not real write-access, no need mark it
>> dirty, so clear dirty bit in this path and later examine this bit when
>> we release the page
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
>> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
> Unfortunately all pages that kvm creates translations for are marked
> dirty due to get_user_pages(w=1), except KSM which makes them read-only
> later.
Marcelo, i have looked into get_user_pages() function, but not catch where
to make page dirty, could you point it out for me? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-14 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-13 9:42 [PATCH 1/4] KVM: MMU: fix forgot reserved bits check in speculative path Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-13 9:43 ` [PATCH 2/4] KVM: MMU: cleanup spte update path Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-13 9:45 ` [PATCH 3/4] KVM: MMU: track dirty page in speculative path properly Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-13 22:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-14 1:24 ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2010-07-14 11:09 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-14 13:18 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-14 14:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-14 14:25 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-15 7:44 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-15 16:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-16 1:58 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-14 5:53 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-13 9:46 ` [PATCH 4/4] KVM: MMU: remove valueless output message Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-13 21:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] KVM: MMU: fix forgot reserved bits check in speculative path Marcelo Tosatti
2010-07-14 1:08 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-14 13:06 ` Avi Kivity
2010-07-14 13:24 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-07-14 14:27 ` Avi Kivity
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