Re: [PATCH 0/8 v3] KVM support for 1GB pages

From: Joerg Roedel
Date: Mon Jun 22 2009 - 05:51:47 EST


On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:43:40PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/22/2009 12:40 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>>> Can you describe how the code fails with shadow paging?
>>>
>>
>> After the rework it even fails to boot a guest with gbpages enabled. This week
>> is a bit tight but I will debug this further next week.
>>
>
> Does the failure happen only when both guest/host use gbpages, or does
> it also happen if gbpages is disabled on either one?

It happens only when the guest uses gbpages. If I disable them at boot the
linux guest boots fine and runs stable.

Joerg

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