linux-kernel - [PATCH 36/50] KVM: MMU: When updating the dirty bit, inform the mmu about it

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Date:	Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:51:21 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH 36/50] KVM: MMU: When updating the dirty bit, inform the mmu about it

Since the mmu uses different shadow pages for dirty large pages and clean
large pages, this allows the mmu to drop ptes that are now invalid.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
---
 drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index a0f84a5..a9e687b 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -74,9 +74,14 @@ static void FNAME(update_dirty_bit)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
 				    pt_element_t *ptep,
 				    gfn_t table_gfn)
 {
+	gpa_t pte_gpa;
+
 	if (write_fault && !is_dirty_pte(*ptep)) {
 		mark_page_dirty(vcpu->kvm, table_gfn);
 		*ptep |= PT_DIRTY_MASK;
+		pte_gpa = ((gpa_t)table_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT);
+		pte_gpa += offset_in_page(ptep);
+		kvm_mmu_pte_write(vcpu, pte_gpa, (u8 *)ptep, sizeof(*ptep));
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.5.3.7

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