On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 01:16:07PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Joerg Roedel wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is the second version of the patches implementing support for 1GB
>> pages in KVM. There are too many changes to the first version to mention
>> them all here. The core support was rewritten to work with mapping
>> levels instead of page sizes. This was the main part of the change.
>> The patches still only support KVM with nested paging enabled
>
> What is missing to get shadow paging working with this? I don't think
> it's particularly important (it will be pretty hard to find a GB page
> without any shadowed pages in it), but I don't like arbitrary
> constraints.
1GB pages with shadow paging does not work yet. But I will post the
patch for it when it works stable for me. It makes sense at least if the
guest uses 1gb pages in hugetlbfs.
> walk_addr() needs to change to support GB pages, did I miss it in the
> patchset?
Ah true. I missed that in this patchset. I will add it.
Joerg
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