Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:09:27 -0300 | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4] KVM: MMU: track dirty page in speculative path properly |
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 09:24:22AM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 05:45:27PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: > >> In speculative path, the page is not real write-access, no need mark it > >> dirty, so clear dirty bit in this path and later examine this bit when > >> we release the page > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> > >> --- > >> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 24 +++++++++++------------- > >> 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > > > Unfortunately all pages that kvm creates translations for are marked > > dirty due to get_user_pages(w=1), except KSM which makes them read-only > > later. > > Marcelo, i have looked into get_user_pages() function, but not catch where > to make page dirty, could you point it out for me? :-)
See set_page_dirty call in mm/memory.c::follow_page.
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