linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] kvm: calculate correct gfn for small host pages which emulates large guest pages

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 14:23:32 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/3] kvm: calculate correct gfn for small host
 pages which emulates large guest pages

On 05/26/2010 11:48 AM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> In Document/kvm/mmu.txt:
>    gfn:
>      Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
>      page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.
>
> But in function FNAME(fetch)(), sp->gfn is incorrect when one of following
> situations occurred:
>   1) guest is 32bit paging and the guest PDE maps a 4-MByte page
>      (backed by 4k host pages), FNAME(fetch)() miss handling the quadrant.
>
>      And if guest use pse-36, "table_gfn = gpte_to_gfn(gw->ptes[level - delta]);"
>      is incorrect.
>   2) guest is long mode paging and the guest PDPTE maps a 1-GByte page
>      (backed by 4k or 2M host pages).
>
> So we fix it to suit to the document and suit to the code which
> requires sp->gfn correct when sp->role.direct=1.
>
> We use the goal mapping gfn(gw->gfn) to calculate the base page frame
> for linear translations, it is simple and easy to be understood.
>    

Applied, thanks.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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