On 15.08.2012, at 03:23, Scott Wood wrote: > On 08/14/2012 06:04 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> When we map a page that wasn't icache cleared before, do so when first >> mapping it in KVM using the same information bits as the Linux mapping >> logic. That way we are 100% sure that any page we map does not have stale >> entries in the icache. > > We're not really 100% sure of that -- this only handles the case where > the kernel does the dirtying, not when it's done by QEMU or the guest.
When the guest does it, the guest is responsible for clearing the icache. Same for QEMU. It needs to clear it when doing DMA. However, what is still broken would be a direct /dev/mem map. There QEMU should probably clear the icache before starting the guest, in case another guest was running on that same memory before. Fortunately, we don't have that mode available in upstream QEMU :). Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
