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@ 2012-12-06 18:04 Ian Molton
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From: Ian Molton @ 2012-12-06 18:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,

Im trying to figure out how (on, say, x86), qemu (1.3, git) knows when 
the guest has accessed a page - in particular, on a framebuffer.

It looks like its done via dirty page logs, which are maintained by the 
host kernel, so probably this is a kernel question, more than a qemu one.

Is this the case? if so, where do the bits in the dirty bitmap get set? 
I cant find anything in the kernel that seems to do much with it, other 
than to copy the bitmap to userspace.

-Ian

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