RE: [PATCH 3/5] live migration support for VM dirty log management

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MZ> So let's play the difference game with x86:

>  int kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_dirty_log


kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() is identical now to x86 version moved it to kvm_main.c,
to make it generic, it's declared weak. Do I go into x86 and remove that function?

Or leave it to x86 folks to do it?

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> + *

> +	}
> +
> +	if (is_dirty)
> +		kvm_tlb_flush_vm(kvm);

MZ> This can be easily abstracted to be a kvm_flush_remote_tlbs on x86, and a HW broadcast on ARM.

Kvm_tlb_flush_vm() is replaced  with kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() I made that
function weak and declared a ARM version, in arm mmu.c

The current version sends IPIs to vCPU running the guest, ARMv7+
does not need that.  Is that ok?


> +	/* walk set bits in the mask and write protect corresponding pages */
> +	while (mask) {
> +		ipa = (slot->base_gfn + gfn_offset + __ffs(mask)) << PAGE_SHIFT;
> +		pgd = pgdp + pgd_index(ipa);
> +		if (!pgd_present(*pgd))
> +			goto update_mask;

MZ> I think something is wrong in your logic. If there is no PGD, it means a whole 1GB isn't present. Yet you're just clearing one bit from the mask and doing it again. As you're only looking at BITS_PER_LONG MZ> contiguous pages at a time, it is likely that the same thing will happen for the other pages, and you're just wasting precious CPU cycles here.

Yes this is grossly inefficient,  I updated it to walk ptes only, after first determining if it straddles a pmd.
Should mostly be pte walks with maybe one PMD walk but unlikely.


> +		new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(*pte), PAGE_S2);
> +		*pte = new_pte;

MZ> I'd like to see these two lines in a separate function (something like "stage2_mark_pte_ro")...

Yes ok.

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