Ping?

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 02:19:14PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:28:11PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 04:14:24PM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 04:12:53PM -0300, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > Reload remote vcpus MMU from GET_DIRTY_LOG codepath, before
> > > > deleting a pinned spte.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]>
> > > > 
> > > > ---
> > > >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > > >  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > Index: kvm.pinned-sptes/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- kvm.pinned-sptes.orig/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c    2014-07-09 
> > > > 11:23:59.290744490 -0300
> > > > +++ kvm.pinned-sptes/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c 2014-07-09 11:24:58.449632435 
> > > > -0300
> > > > @@ -1208,7 +1208,8 @@
> > > >   *
> > > >   * Return true if tlb need be flushed.
> > > >   */
> > > > -static bool spte_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, bool 
> > > > pt_protect)
> > > > +static bool spte_write_protect(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, bool 
> > > > pt_protect,
> > > > +                              bool skip_pinned)
> > > >  {
> > > >         u64 spte = *sptep;
> > > >  
> > > > @@ -1218,6 +1219,22 @@
> > > >  
> > > >         rmap_printk("rmap_write_protect: spte %p %llx\n", sptep, 
> > > > *sptep);
> > > >  
> > > > +       if (is_pinned_spte(spte)) {
> > > > +               /* keep pinned spte intact, mark page dirty again */
> > > > +               if (skip_pinned) {
> > > > +                       struct kvm_mmu_page *sp;
> > > > +                       gfn_t gfn;
> > > > +
> > > > +                       sp = page_header(__pa(sptep));
> > > > +                       gfn = kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn(sp, sptep - sp->spt);
> > > > +
> > > > +                       mark_page_dirty(kvm, gfn);
> > > > +                       return false;
> > > Why not mark all pinned gfns as dirty in kvm_vm_ioctl_get_dirty_log() 
> > > while
> > > populating dirty_bitmap_buffer?
> > 
> > The pinned gfns are per-vcpu. Requires looping all vcpus (not
> > scalable).
> > 
> > 
> > > > +               } else
> > > > +                       mmu_reload_pinned_vcpus(kvm);
> > > Can you explain why do you need this?
> > 
> > Because if skip_pinned = false, we want vcpus to exit (called
> > from enable dirty logging codepath).
> 
> Gleb, any further opinions on this ?
> 
> Can you ack the patch ? TIA
> 
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