From: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dgilbert@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] kvm: clear dirty bitmaps from all overlapping memslots
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:19:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190920121951.GI12858@xz-x1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1568974882-7419-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 12:21:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> A single ram_addr (representing a host-virtual address) could be aliased
> to multiple guest physical addresses. Since the KVM dirty page reporting
> works on guest physical addresses, we need to clear all of the aliases
> when a page is migrated, or there is a risk of losing writes to the
> aliases that were not cleared.
(CCing Igor too so Igor would be aware of these changes that might
conflict with the recent memslot split work)
--
Peter Xu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-20 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-20 10:21 [PATCH 0/2] kvm: clear dirty bitmaps from all overlapping memslots Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 10:21 ` [PATCH 1/2] kvm: extract kvm_log_clear_one_slot Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 12:11 ` Peter Xu
2019-09-20 10:21 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: clear dirty bitmaps from all overlapping memslots Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 12:18 ` Peter Xu
2019-09-20 14:03 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-20 12:19 ` Peter Xu [this message]
2019-09-20 13:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Igor Mammedov
2019-09-23 1:29 ` Peter Xu
2019-09-23 16:15 ` Igor Mammedov
2019-09-23 16:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-09-24 2:53 ` Peter Xu
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