[patch 012/108] KVM: Fix dirty bit tracking for slots with large pages

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jun 30 2009 - 20:50:21 EST


2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit e244584fe3a5c20deddeca246548ac86dbc6e1d1 upstream.

When slot is already allocated and being asked to be tracked we need
to break the large pages.

This code flush the mmu when someone ask a slot to start dirty bit
tracking.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -1030,6 +1030,8 @@ int __kvm_set_memory_region(struct kvm *
if (!new.dirty_bitmap)
goto out_free;
memset(new.dirty_bitmap, 0, dirty_bytes);
+ if (old.npages)
+ kvm_arch_flush_shadow(kvm);
}
#endif /* not defined CONFIG_S390 */



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