Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk

2012-09-18 Thread Xiao Guangrong
On 09/16/2012 08:07 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: While unspecified, the behaviour of Intel processors is to first perform the page table walk, then, if the walk was successful, to atomically update the accessed and dirty bits of walked paging elements. While we are not required to follow this

[PATCH v2 4/9] KVM: MMU: Update accessed and dirty bits after guest pagetable walk

2012-09-16 Thread Avi Kivity
While unspecified, the behaviour of Intel processors is to first perform the page table walk, then, if the walk was successful, to atomically update the accessed and dirty bits of walked paging elements. While we are not required to follow this exactly, doing so will allow us to perform the