linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:59:11 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu

On 11/15/2010 11:55 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>  >   Or another thread may have mmap()ed something else over the
> >>  >   same address.
> >>
> >>  The mmap virtual address is also visible for other threads since the
> >>  threads
> >>  have the same page table, so i think this case is the same as above?
> >
> >  Again, don't we install the wrong spte in this case?
> >
>
> I think it doesn't corrupts spte since we will walk guest page table again
> and map it to shadow pages when we retry #PF.

Well, you're right, we don't use any gfn/pfn info from the async page fault.

However, we're still not modelling the cpu accurately.  For example we 
will set dirty and accessed bits, or inject a page fault if the gpte 
turns out to be not present.

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

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