Re: [PATCH 2/3] KVM: MMU: don not retry #PF for nonpaging guest

From: Gleb Natapov
Date: Fri Nov 05 2010 - 06:31:42 EST


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 04:03:28PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 03:45 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>
> >>
> >> It looks like something broken: apfs can generated in L2 guest (nested ntp guest)
> >> and be retried in L1 guest.
> >>
> > Why is this a problem? apf will be generate on direct map even when L2
> > guest is running so it should be OK to prefault it into direct map on
> > completion.
> >
>
> The nested_cr3 is different between L2 and L1, fix L2's page fault in L1's page table
> is useless.
But we are fixing L0 page faults in L0 page table. We do not start apf
because of L1 faulted in its page table.

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Gleb.
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