Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:35:56 +0200 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > >> I think you should consider if you can also build a rmap per-MM like >> KVM does and index it by the virtual address like KVM does. >> > > Yes we have that. > > If we have that then we do not need the mmu_notifier. > We could call it with a page parameter and then walk the KVM or XPmem > reverse map to directly find all the ptes we need to clear. There is no > need then to add a new field to the mm_struct. >
The reason the new field is needed is because the Linux mm does not understand the secondary pte format and zapping protocol. Locating the secondary ptes is just a part of the problem.
-- Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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