Thread (55 messages) 55 messages, 10 authors, 2015-03-09
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[RFC/RFT PATCH 0/3] arm64: KVM: work around incoherency with uncached guest mappings

From: Laszlo Ersek <hidden>
Date: 2015-03-02 16:55:44
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On 03/02/15 17:47, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Also, we may want to invalidate the cache for dirty pages before
returning the dirty bitmap, and probably should do that directly in
KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG.
"I agree."

If KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG is supposed to be atomic fetch and clear (from
userspace's aspect), then the cache invalidation should be an atomic
part of it too (from the same aspect).

(Sorry if I just said something incredibly stupid.)

Laszlo
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