On 08.01.2012, at 14:29, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 01/04/2012 03:10 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> From: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
>> 
>> This adds the infrastructure to enable us to page out pages underneath
>> a Book3S HV guest, on processors that support virtualized partition
>> memory, that is, POWER7.  Instead of pinning all the guest's pages,
>> we now look in the host userspace Linux page tables to find the
>> mapping for a given guest page.  Then, if the userspace Linux PTE
>> gets invalidated, kvm_unmap_hva() gets called for that address, and
>> we replace all the guest HPTEs that refer to that page with absent
>> HPTEs, i.e. ones with the valid bit clear and the HPTE_V_ABSENT bit
>> set, which will cause an HDSI when the guest tries to access them.
>> Finally, the page fault handler is extended to reinstantiate the
>> guest HPTE when the guest tries to access a page which has been paged
>> out.
> 
> Yay!

Half-yay, yes :). It does not work on 970, so we still have a target that 
doesn't support it.


Alex

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