Re: [RFC 7/8]KVM: swap out guest pages

[Avi Kivity]

Shaohua Li wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>> You're not removing any shadows of the page, in case that page is a
>> guest page table.  But I don't see anything wrong with it -- the page
>> won't change while it's in swap.
>>     
> You are right. Should we?
>   

I don't think so.  It's just strange to have shadows for a guest page
that is swapped out, so I pointed that out.  But as the page cannot
change in swap, everything is safe.  I guess that kernel page tables
could be swapped out after a short while in a guest that doesn't swap
its own kernel pages.

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