Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] KVM: MMU: fast path of handling guest page fault

From: Takuya Yoshikawa
Date: Mon Jun 18 2012 - 22:07:28 EST


On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:21:20 -0300
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > [not about this patch]
> >
> > EPT accessed/dirty bits will be used for more things in the future.
> > Are there any rules for using these bits?
> >
> > Same as other bits?
>
> Do you mean hardware rules or KVM rules?

KVM rules.

Your concern was about "lock-less" v. "current EPT-A/D code".
My question was what we should care not to break the former
in the future.

Takuya
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