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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:17:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CFCE270.1080500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CFCB983.6020503@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 12/06/2010 12:22 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> On 12/06/2010 05:48 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  On 12/02/2010 11:46 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>  Retry #PF for softmmu only when the current vcpu has the same cr3 as
> >>  the time
> >>  when #PF occurs
> >>
> >>  Changelog:
> >>     Just compare cr3 value since It's harmless to instantiate an spte
> >>  for an
> >>     unused translation from Marcelo's comment
> >>
> >
> >  It's not harmless.  We could be in a different process, so we have to
> >  re-fetch the gpte.  Or we could have switched from one nested guest to
> >  another.
> >
>
> But it does this in this patch: re-walk guest page table and fixes guest's
> shadow page (not use any info when apf is occurred)

Right.  Please resend without the walk_addr() changes.  While they're 
correct, I'd like to keep that part simpler.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-02  9:44 [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: MMU: rename 'no_apf' to 'prefault' Xiao Guangrong
2010-12-02  9:45 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] KVM: MMU: fix accessed bit set on prefault path Xiao Guangrong
2010-12-02  9:46 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu Xiao Guangrong
2010-12-06  9:48   ` Avi Kivity
2010-12-06 10:22     ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-12-06 13:17       ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-12-02  9:51 ` Xiao Guangrong
2010-12-03 20:30 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] KVM: MMU: rename 'no_apf' to 'prefault' Marcelo Tosatti
2010-12-06  9:32   ` Gleb Natapov

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