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Avi Kivity
1b7fcd3263 KVM: MMU: Fix false flooding when a pte points to page table
The KVM MMU tries to detect when a speculative pte update is not actually
used by demand fault, by checking the accessed bit of the shadow pte.  If
the shadow pte has not been accessed, we deem that page table flooded and
remove the shadow page table, allowing further pte updates to proceed
without emulation.

However, if the pte itself points at a page table and only used for write
operations, the accessed bit will never be set since all access will happen
through the emulator.

This is exactly what happens with kscand on old (2.4.x) HIGHMEM kernels.
The kernel points a kmap_atomic() pte at a page table, and then
proceeds with read-modify-write operations to look at the dirty and accessed
bits.  We get a false flood trigger on the kmap ptes, which results in the
mmu spending all its time setting up and tearing down shadows.

Fix by setting the shadow accessed bit on emulated accesses.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-07-20 12:40:50 +03:00
Sheng Yang
67253af52e KVM: Add kvm_x86_ops get_tdp_level()
The function get_tdp_level() provided the number of tdp level for EPT and
NPT rather than the NPT specific macro.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-04 14:44:34 +03:00
Sheng Yang
8c6d6adc6b KVM: MMU: Move some definitions to a header file
Move some definitions to mmu.h in order to allow building common table
entries between EPT and non-EPT.

Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-05-04 12:26:38 +03:00
Joerg Roedel
fb72d1674d KVM: MMU: add TDP support to the KVM MMU
This patch contains the changes to the KVM MMU necessary for support of the
Nested Paging feature in AMD Barcelona and Phenom Processors.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-04-27 11:53:20 +03:00
Avi Kivity
edf884172e KVM: Move arch dependent files to new directory arch/x86/kvm/
This paves the way for multiple architecture support.  Note that while
ioapic.c could potentially be shared with ia64, it is also moved.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2008-01-30 18:01:18 +02:00
Renamed from drivers/kvm/mmu.h (Browse further)