On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:25:05PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:50:10PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 06/16/2012 05:11 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > >
> > > Can you introduce a separate exit reason, say KVM_EXIT_READ_FAULT, with
> > > information about the fault?
> >
> > I think you mean WRITE_FAULT.
>
> Yes.
>
> > But what's wrong with the normal mmio exit?
>
> It is necessary to perform an address->mmio region lookup, to verify
> whether the mmio exit is due to an actual mmio (no memory slot) or from
> a write access to a write protected slot. That information is readily
> available in the kernel but is lost if the mmio exit is used to transmit
> the information.
>
Why is it necessary though? Write access to a write protected slot is
MMIO by (our) definition.
> Moreover, i'd argue the uses are different: one is an mmio emulation
> exit, the other is more like handling a pagefault in qemu.
>
What do you mean by "handling a pagefault in qemu"?
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