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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: MMU: cleanup pte write path
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:21:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D78A642.8020708@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D772FB7.8060007@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 03/09/2011 09:43 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> This patch does:
> - call vcpu->arch.mmu.update_pte directly
> - use gfn_to_pfn_atomic in update_pte path
>
> The suggestion is from Avi.
>
>
>
> -	mmu_guess_page_from_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, gentry);
> +	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
> +	smp_rmb();

smp_rmb() should come before, no? but the problem was present in the 
original code, too.

> +
>   	spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
>   	if (atomic_read(&vcpu->kvm->arch.invlpg_counter) != invlpg_counter)
>   		gentry = 0;
> @@ -3365,7 +3345,8 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
>   			if (gentry&&
>   			!((sp->role.word ^ vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.word)
>   			&  mask.word))
> -				mmu_pte_write_new_pte(vcpu, sp, spte,&gentry);
> +				mmu_pte_write_new_pte(vcpu, sp, spte,&gentry,
> +						      mmu_seq);

Okay, we're only iterating over indirect pages, so we won't call 
nonpaging_update_pte().

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


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-09  7:41 [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: fix rcu usage in init_rmode_* functions Xiao Guangrong
2011-03-09  7:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: cleanup memslot_id function Xiao Guangrong
2011-03-09  7:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] KVM: MMU: introduce a common function to get no-dirty-logged slot Xiao Guangrong
2011-03-09  7:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: MMU: cleanup pte write path Xiao Guangrong
2011-03-10 10:21   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-03-11  3:41     ` Xiao Guangrong
2011-03-10 10:22 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] KVM: fix rcu usage in init_rmode_* functions Avi Kivity

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