Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: MMU: cleanup pte write path

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On 03/09/2011 09:43 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
This patch does:
- call vcpu->arch.mmu.update_pte directly
- use gfn_to_pfn_atomic in update_pte path

The suggestion is from Avi.



-	mmu_guess_page_from_pte_write(vcpu, gpa, gentry);
+	mmu_seq = vcpu->kvm->mmu_notifier_seq;
+	smp_rmb();

smp_rmb() should come before, no? but the problem was present in the original code, too.

+
  	spin_lock(&vcpu->kvm->mmu_lock);
  	if (atomic_read(&vcpu->kvm->arch.invlpg_counter) != invlpg_counter)
  		gentry = 0;
@@ -3365,7 +3345,8 @@ void kvm_mmu_pte_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa,
  			if (gentry&&
  			!((sp->role.word ^ vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.word)
  			&  mask.word))
-				mmu_pte_write_new_pte(vcpu, sp, spte,&gentry);
+				mmu_pte_write_new_pte(vcpu, sp, spte,&gentry,
+						      mmu_seq);

Okay, we're only iterating over indirect pages, so we won't call nonpaging_update_pte().

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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