linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 7/8]KVM: swap out guest pages

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Message-Id: <1185241908.24201.22.camel@sli10-conroe.sh.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:51:48 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	kvm-devel <kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/8]KVM: swap out guest pages

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 19:32 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Shaohua Li wrote:
> > Make KVM guest pages be allocated dynamically and able to be swaped
> out.
> >
> > One issue: all inodes returned from anon_inode_getfd are shared,
> > if one module changes field of the inode, other moduels might break.
> > Should we introduce a new API to not share inode?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/kvm/kvm.h      |    8 +
> >  drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |  220
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  2 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> >
> > +
> > +     /*
> > +      * We just zap vcpu 0's page table. For a SMP guest, we should
> zap all
> > +      * vcpus'. It's better shadow page table is per-vm.
> > +      */
> > +     if (PagePrivate(page))
> > +             kvm_mmu_zap_pagetbl(&kvm->vcpus[0], page->index);
> > +
> >  
> 
> You're not removing any shadows of the page, in case that page is a
> guest page table.  But I don't see anything wrong with it -- the page
> won't change while it's in swap.
You are right. Should we?
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