> The current kvm without mmu-notifiers, can transparently swap guest > pages only if they are not pointed by the shadow page tables. > One a spte is instantiated the page cannot go to swap.
Can you explain why spte's must be unmapped as well ? The memory region occupied by the structures maintaining the spte's (kvm_mmu_page) they are also part of Linux VM. So why won't they be swapped by Linux VM. I didn't get the problem behind secondary MMU. ( I was going through the slides of presentation "Integrating with the KVM Linux Memory Management" by Andrea Arcangeli : KVM Forum 2008 ) -- Regards, Sukanto Ghosh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
