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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2008-09-23 13:18:39 -0300
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2008-10-15 14:25:25 +0200
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treec732e9de4dbb35c74c158962771b6804dd8db153 /include/linux/kvm_host.h
parent6844dec6948679d084f054235fee19ba4e3a3096 (diff)
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KVM: MMU: out of sync shadow core
Allow guest pagetables to go out of sync. Instead of emulating write accesses to guest pagetables, or unshadowing them, we un-write-protect the page table and allow the guest to modify it at will. We rely on invlpg executions to synchronize individual ptes, and will synchronize the entire pagetable on tlb flushes. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/kvm_host.h b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
index 6252802..73b7c52 100644
--- a/include/linux/kvm_host.h
+++ b/include/linux/kvm_host.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#define KVM_REQ_TRIPLE_FAULT 4
#define KVM_REQ_PENDING_TIMER 5
#define KVM_REQ_UNHALT 6
+#define KVM_REQ_MMU_SYNC 7
struct kvm_vcpu;
extern struct kmem_cache *kvm_vcpu_cache;
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