Re: Calling to kvm_mmu_load

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Il 31/10/2013 09:05, Arthur Chunqi Li ha scritto:
>> >
>> > Basically everything that accesses the dirty_bitmap field of struct
>> > kvm_memory_slot is involved.  It all starts when the
>> > KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION ioctl is called with the
>> > KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES flag set.
> I find the mechanism here is set all pages read-only to track all the
> dirty pages. But EPT provides such a dirty bit in EPT paging
> structures. Why don't we use this?

It doesn't provide it on all processors.  Check eptad in
/sys/module/kvm_intel/parameters.

Paolo
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html




[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux