Re: [PATCH 00/10] x86: PTE D Bit based dirty logging

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On 10/29/2018 02:39 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
> Interesting, I also implement a version of PTE D Bit based dirty
> logging 4 years ago w/o sending to upstream. The PTE D Bit based mode
> will switch to write protection mode each time before
> KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG ioctl or just once before the xx_start?
> 

The switch to write-protection mode will be done only when userspace calls the KVM_SET_DIRTY_LOG_MODE IOCTL with KVM_DIRTY_LOG_MODE_WRPROT as the parameter. The general expectation is that userspace will call this only once near the end of the brownout period.

Thanks,
Junaid



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