On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 14:37 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 06:10:48PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > > For processors that support VPIDs we should invalidate the page table entry > > specified by the lineal address. For this purpose add support for individual > > address invalidations. > > Not necessary - a single context invalidation is performed through > KVM_REQ_TLB_FLUSH.
Since vpid_sync_context() supports both single and all-context vpid invalidations, wouldn't it make sense to also add individual address ones as well, supporting further granularity? > > Single-context. If the INVVPID type is 1, the logical processor > invalidates all > linear mappings and combined mappings associated with the VPID specified > in the INVVPID descriptor. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
