On 06/22/2011 05:35 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Use rcu to protect shadow pages table to be freed, so we can safely walk it,
it should run fastly and is needed by mmio page fault


  static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,
                                    struct list_head *invalid_list)
  {
@@ -1767,6 +1874,14 @@ static void kvm_mmu_commit_zap_page(struct kvm *kvm,

        kvm_flush_remote_tlbs(kvm);

+       if (atomic_read(&kvm->arch.reader_counter)) {
+               kvm_mmu_isolate_pages(invalid_list);
+               sp = list_first_entry(invalid_list, struct kvm_mmu_page, link);
+               list_del_init(invalid_list);
+               call_rcu(&sp->rcu, free_pages_rcu);
+               return;
+       }
+

I think we should do this unconditionally. The cost of ping-ponging the shared cache line containing reader_counter will increase with large smp counts. On the other hand, zap_page is very rare, so it can be a little slower. Also, less code paths = easier to understand.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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