On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:43:59 +0200
Avi Kivity <[email protected]> wrote:
> rmap_write_protect() protects a 4k page, so it uses update_spte() to 
> drop the W bit, and drops large mappings that point to the same 4k 
> page.  We can't drop the W bit from the large page, because that will 
> write protect 511 unrelated pages.

I see, I'll reread these from that sense.

Thank you for the explanation.

  Takuya

> 
> > I may be able to learn something from your share code later on.
> >
> 
> Unlikely - I was thinking of sharing the
> 
> >  +                          drop_spte(kvm,&pt[i],
> >  +                                    shadow_trap_nonpresent_pte);
> >  +                          --kvm->stat.lpages;
> 
> 
> bits.  Now I'm thinking of dropping kvm->stat, I think we have all the 
> information it provides covered by tracepoints.
> 
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