Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] Move two pinned pages to non-movable node in kvm.

From: Tang Chen
Date: Sun Jun 29 2014 - 21:44:46 EST


On 06/21/2014 04:39 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 05:31:46PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
IIRC your shadow page pinning patch series support flushing of ptes
by mmu notifier by forcing MMU reload and, as a result, faulting in of
pinned pages during next entry. Your patch series does not pin pages
by elevating their page count.

No but PEBS series does and its required to stop swap-out
of the page.

Well actually no because of mmu notifiers.

Tang, can you implement mmu notifiers for the other breaker of
mem hotplug ?

Hi Marcelo,

I made a patch to update ept and apic pages when finding them in the
next ept violation. And I also updated the APIC_ACCESS_ADDR phys_addr.
The pages can be migrated, but the guest crached.

How do I stop guest from access apic pages in mmu_notifier when the
page migration starts ? Do I need to stop all the vcpus by set vcpu
state to KVM_MP_STATE_HALTED ? If so, the vcpu will not able to go
to the next ept violation.

So, may I write any specific value into APIC_ACCESS_ADDR to stop guest
from access to apic page ?

Thanks.
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