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SubjectRe: [RFC 7/8]KVM: swap out guest pages
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On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 19:32 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.
You are right. Should we?
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