Dirty pages logging

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Hello everyone,
This is a newbie question, please ignore the ignorance. :)

Is there a way i can get a list of all guest pages dirtied in a given
time-period? I know that the live-migration mechanism uses this info..
I came across this thread :
http://www.kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-kvm/2009/6/11/5943303
which mentions using the dirty info in KSM.
This is precisely what i wish to do. I've observed that KSM spends too
much time mem_cmp'ing pages, and if there was a way to feed it a list
of dirty guest pages, there would be signficant speedup.

So my question is: Is there a 'safe' way to get the dirty pages list?
Are the overheads mentioned in the link above still relevant ?

Thanks.
-- Prateek
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