Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Apr 2017 10:37:26 +0100 | From | James Hogan <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] KVM: fix guest_mode optimization in kvm_make_all_cpus_request() |
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Hi Paolo,
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 01:25:04PM +0800, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 07/04/2017 05:02, James Hogan wrote: > > This presumably changes the behaviour on x86, from != OUTSIDE_GUEST_MODE > > to == IN_GUEST_MODE. so: > > - you'll no longer get IPIs if its in READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES (which > > MIPS also now uses when accessing mappings outside of guest mode and > > depends upon to wait until the old mappings are no longer in use). > > This is wrong, the purpose of READING_SHADOW_PAGE_TABLES is "kvm_flush_remote_tlbs > should send me an IPI, because I want to stop kvm_flush_remote_tlbs until I'm done > reading the page tables".
That sounds equivalent to what I meant for MIPS, i.e. kvm_flush_remote_tlbs() does the waiting (not the thing accessing guest mappings).
Cheers James [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |