Re: [PATCH v10 4/6] arm: KVM: Add initial dirty page locking infrastructure

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On 09/11/2014 03:18 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 01:03:19PM -0700, Mario Smarduch wrote:
>> On 09/10/2014 08:13 PM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 10:25:43AM -0700, Mario Smarduch wrote:
>>>> On 09/03/2014 08:29 PM, wanghaibin wrote:
>>>>> On 2014/9/4 7:01, Mario Smarduch wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 09/02/2014 07:42 PM, wanghaibin wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2014/8/27 8:04, Mario Smarduch wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> About CONFIG_ARM , I suggest cancle this limmit..
>>>>>>> I just implement a few interfaces for ARM64 , and tested this patch using VNC, it's work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes I was planing to do that once ARMv7 and generic/arch split for
>>>>>> dirty log and tlb flush functions are settled. I realize at this time 
>>>>>> ARMv8 just needs it's own tlb flush and it's done. But I need a strong 
>>>>>> test case before claiming ARMv8 support
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have some ideas on testing it but migration is probably most
>>>>>> reliable and the only use case really.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you elaborate on your test environment for ARMv8 (you could
>>>>>> email off-line if too long, also thanks for testing!). 
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't mind merging this code for ARMv7 only.  For sure, Mario you
>>> would need to test your setup with ARMv8 carefully before we could merge
>>> this for v8, and we should revisit the pud_huge considerations for
>>> ARMv8, although I suspect we're alright given we have similar code in
>>> clear_pud_entry().
>>
>> Yes a definitive test is needed to validate ARMv8 logging.
>> Migration with a busy environment (lmbench, random dirty)
>> does that on ARMv7. I'll work with wanhaibin check his environment,
>> and start looking through QEMU ARMv8 migration status.
>>
> 
> Alex Bennee is working on this, but we're having some issues with the
> GIC state.  Don't hold your breath, it may be a number of weeks before
> we have it done.
> 
> I'll let you know as soon as we have.
Thanks for letting me know I'll look for other ways to test.

> 
> -Christoffer
> 

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