On 04/12/2010 01:42 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Hi Avi,
Thanks for your comments.
Avi Kivity wrote:
Later we have:
kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4(vcpu, cr4);
vcpu->arch.cr4 = cr4;
vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.cr4_pge = (cr4& X86_CR4_PGE)&&
!tdp_enabled;
All of which depend on cr4.
Oh, destroy_kvm_mmu() is not really destroyed cr3 and we can reload it later
form shadow page cache, so, maybe this patch is unnecessary.
But, i have a another question here, why we need encode 'cr4& X86_CR4_PGE' into
base_role.cr4_gpe? Why we need allocation different shadow page for global page
and no-global page?
See 6364a3918cb. It was reverted later due to a problem with the
implementation. I'm not sure whether I want to fix the bug and restore
that patch, or to drop it altogether and give the guest ownership of
cr4.pge. See cr4_guest_owned_bits (currently only used on ept).
As i know, global page is not static in TLB, and x86 cpu also may flush them
form TLB,
maybe we no need treat global page specially... Am i miss something? :-(
You can't read reverted patches? :)
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