Re: [PATCH 04/12] KVM: MMU: log dirty page after marking sptewritable

From: Marcelo Tosatti
Date: Tue Nov 19 2013 - 19:35:46 EST


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:29:20PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> A call to GET_DIRTY_LOG guarantees to return correct information about
> dirty pages before invocation of the previous GET_DIRTY_LOG call.

> Can you explain why it is OK to relax this rule?

That is, this might be OK, but better understand why it is.

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