Re: Mapping of Shared Page in e500 Powerpc kvm

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Am 23.10.2011 um 15:45 schrieb Aashish Mittal <aashish.mittal4u@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi
> 
> I'm working on powerpc e500 machine (Freescale P2020RDB machine) and 
> using the paravirtualization guest support available inside kvm  and wanted
> to some bookkeeping of my own on the shared page and from what i 
> understood is that a single tlb entry is reserved for the shared page 
> (magic page) when running the guest which is never preempted or flushed
> but when i tried printing out the dtlb misses on this shared page it show 
> me a large number of dtlb misses on this shared page which means that 
> this page is being preempted or flushed out in some way . Can someone pleas
> e clarify this situation if i'm understanding something wrong or is it a bug ?

We have seen similar effects and concluded it to be a bug, but didn't track down what exactly was causing it yet.


Alex

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