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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu
On 11/15/2010 11:55 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >> > Or another thread may have mmap()ed something else over the
> >> > same address.
> >>
> >> The mmap virtual address is also visible for other threads since the
> >> threads
> >> have the same page table, so i think this case is the same as above?
> >
> > Again, don't we install the wrong spte in this case?
> >
>
> I think it doesn't corrupts spte since we will walk guest page table again
> and map it to shadow pages when we retry #PF.

Well, you're right, we don't use any gfn/pfn info from the async page fault.

However, we're still not modelling the cpu accurately. For example we
will set dirty and accessed bits, or inject a page fault if the gpte
turns out to be not present.

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