Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] mm+paravirt+xen: add pte read-modify-write abstraction
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-31 00:15:51
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <hidden>
Date: 2008-05-31 00:15:51
Also in:
lkml, xen-devel
Zachary Amsden wrote:
We don't fault. We write directly to the primary page tables, and clear the pte just like native. We just issue all mprotect updates in the queue, and flush the queue when leaving lazy mmu mode. You can't wait for the TLB flush, you must flush the updates before releasing the pagetable lock, or you could get misordered updates in an SMP system.
How do you track which ptes need shadow updates? Do you walk the entire
pagetable on tlb flush? Or just rebuild the shadow from scratch on demand?
J