On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 04:57:36PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Issue is the paravirt_ops code in Linux does not cover all pte updates
> > (bit updates, ptep_get_and_clear, etc).
> >
> > The plan is to get the basic infrastructure merged into KVM first (which
> > is a significant improvement already) and then later have paravirt_ops
> > cover all updates, disabling write protection.
> >   
> 
> Okay, sounds good.
> 
> Do you know if anyone is working on extending pv_ops as you describe?

Not that I'm aware of.

I was planning to do it. The first part of that is a mask based bit
update hypercall (ie. a non-broken version of the patch I posted earlier
which Jeremy replied to).

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