linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Remove write access permissions when dirty-page-logging is enabled

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Message-Id: <20070225125807.2EDAF250196@il.qumranet.com>
Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2007 12:58:07 -0000
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] KVM: Remove write access permissions when
	dirty-page-logging is enabled

Enabling dirty page logging is done using KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION ioctl.
If the memory region already exists, we need to remove write accesses,
so writes will be caught, and dirty pages will be logged.

Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@...ranet.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index be7694d..e48b4d7 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -748,6 +748,8 @@ raced:
 		vcpu = vcpu_load_slot(kvm, i);
 		if (!vcpu)
 			continue;
+		if (new.flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)
+			do_remove_write_access(vcpu, mem->slot);
 		kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
 		vcpu_put(vcpu);
 	}
-
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