Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >> In shadow mode hypervisors, ptep_get_and_clear achieves the desired >> purpose of keeping the shadows in sync by issuing a native_get_and_clear, >> followed by a call to pte_update, which indicates the PTE has been >> modified. >> >> Direct mode hypervisors (Xen) have no need for this anyway, and will trap >> the update using writable pagetables. >> >> This means no hypervisor makes use of ptep_get_and_clear; there is no >> reason to have it in the paravirt-ops structure. Change confusing >> terminology about raw vs. native functions into consistent use of >> native_pte_xxx for operations which do not invoke paravirt-ops. >> >> > > Looks OK to me. Are you going to put this into the pvops queue? > > Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Yes, the rest are still undergoing feedback. I'll kick this in and fixup the damage it causes. Zach _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
