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| author | Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> | 2007-09-23 14:10:49 +0200 |
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| committer | Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> | 2008-01-30 17:52:48 +0200 |
| commit | 12b7d28fc102b772eb70f98491587ec5ee717baf (patch) | |
| tree | 679077d072c9c0195a962a16f805bb228070a87c /drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | |
| parent | c7addb902054195b995114df154e061c7d604f69 (diff) | |
KVM: MMU: Make flooding detection work when guest page faults are bypassed
When we allow guest page faults to reach the guests directly, we lose
the fault tracking which allows us to detect demand paging. So we provide
an alternate mechnism by clearing the accessed bit when we set a pte, and
checking it later to see if the guest actually used it.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h index 99ac9b15f77..be0f85231da 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h +++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h @@ -238,7 +238,12 @@ static void FNAME(set_pte_common)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, FNAME(mark_pagetable_dirty)(vcpu->kvm, walker); } - spte = PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_ACCESSED_MASK | PT_DIRTY_MASK; + /* + * We don't set the accessed bit, since we sometimes want to see + * whether the guest actually used the pte (in order to detect + * demand paging). + */ + spte = PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_DIRTY_MASK; spte |= gpte & PT64_NX_MASK; if (!dirty) access_bits &= ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK; @@ -291,6 +296,8 @@ unshadowed: page_header_update_slot(vcpu->kvm, shadow_pte, gaddr); if (!was_rmapped) rmap_add(vcpu, shadow_pte); + if (!ptwrite || !*ptwrite) + vcpu->last_pte_updated = shadow_pte; } static void FNAME(set_pte)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, pt_element_t gpte, |