linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/10] KVM MMU: don't write-protect if have new mapping to unsync page

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Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/10] KVM MMU: don't write-protect if have new mapping
 to unsync page

On 04/25/2010 10:00 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Two cases maybe happen in kvm_mmu_get_page() function:
>
> - one case is, the goal sp is already in cache, if the sp is unsync,
>    we only need update it to assure this mapping is valid, but not
>    mark it sync and not write-protect sp->gfn since it not broke unsync
>    rule(one shadow page for a gfn)
>
> - another case is, the goal sp not existed, we need create a new sp
>    for gfn, i.e, gfn (may)has another shadow page, to keep unsync rule,
>    we should sync(mark sync and write-protect) gfn's unsync shadow page.
>    After enabling multiple unsync shadows, we sync those shadow pages
>    only when the new sp not allow to become unsync(also for the unsyc
>    rule, the new rule is: allow all pte page become unsync)
>    

Another interesting case is to create new shadow pages in the unsync 
state.  That can help when the guest starts a short lived process: we 
can avoid write protecting its pagetables completely.  Even if we do 
sync them, we can sync them in a batch instead of one by one, saving IPIs.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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