linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] Retry fault before vmentry

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Message-ID: <4CBAD111.3070406@redhat.com>
Date:	Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:33:53 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>
CC:	kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, tglx@...utronix.de, hpa@...or.com,
	riel@...hat.com, cl@...ux-foundation.org, mtosatti@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] Retry fault before vmentry

  On 10/14/2010 11:22 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> When page is swapped in it is mapped into guest memory only after guest
> tries to access it again and generate another fault. To save this fault
> we can map it immediately since we know that guest is going to access
> the page. Do it only when tdp is enabled for now. Shadow paging case is
> more complicated. CR[034] and EFER registers should be switched before
> doing mapping and then switched back.
>
> +void kvm_arch_async_page_ready(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_async_pf *work)
> +{
> +	if (!vcpu->arch.mmu.direct_map || is_error_page(work->page))
> +		return;
> +	vcpu->arch.mmu.page_fault(vcpu, work->gva, 0, true);
> +}

Missing mmu_topup_memory_caches().


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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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