Re: [PATCH 4/6] KVM MMU: optimize for writing cr4

[Avi Kivity]

On 04/12/2010 01:42 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Hi Avi,
>
> Thanks for your comments.
>
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>    
> > Later we have:
> >
> >      
> > >          kvm_x86_ops->set_cr4(vcpu, cr4);
> > >          vcpu->arch.cr4 = cr4;
> > >          vcpu->arch.mmu.base_role.cr4_pge = (cr4&  X86_CR4_PGE)&&
> > > !tdp_enabled;
> > >        
> > All of which depend on cr4.
> >      
> Oh, destroy_kvm_mmu() is not really destroyed cr3 and we can reload it later
> form shadow page cache, so, maybe this patch is unnecessary.
>
> But, i have a another question here, why we need encode 'cr4&  X86_CR4_PGE' into
> base_role.cr4_gpe? Why we need allocation different shadow page for global page
> and no-global page?
>    

See 6364a3918cb.  It was reverted later due to a problem with the 
implementation.  I'm not sure whether I want to fix the bug and restore 
that patch, or to drop it altogether and give the guest ownership of 
cr4.pge.  See cr4_guest_owned_bits (currently only used on ept).

> As i know, global page is not static in TLB, and x86 cpu also may flush them form TLB,
> maybe we no need treat global page specially... Am i miss something? :-(
>    

You can't read reverted patches? :)

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