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SubjectRe: [RFC 7/8]KVM: swap out guest pages
Shaohua Li wrote:
> Make KVM guest pages be allocated dynamically and able to be swaped out.
>
> One issue: all inodes returned from anon_inode_getfd are shared,
> if one module changes field of the inode, other moduels might break.
> Should we introduce a new API to not share inode?
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
> ---
> drivers/kvm/kvm.h | 8 +
> drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 220 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 2 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> +
> + /*
> + * We just zap vcpu 0's page table. For a SMP guest, we should zap all
> + * vcpus'. It's better shadow page table is per-vm.
> + */
> + if (PagePrivate(page))
> + kvm_mmu_zap_pagetbl(&kvm->vcpus[0], page->index);
> +
>

You're not removing any shadows of the page, in case that page is a
guest page table. But I don't see anything wrong with it -- the page
won't change while it's in swap.

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

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