Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.03.2012, at 22:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:59 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > g_assert(TARGET_PAGE_SIZE <= getpagesize()) > > Just declare the above case as unsupported and abort if we >> encounter it. What I'm trying to tell you is

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.03.2012 21:59, schrieb Alexander Graf: > > > On 04.03.2012, at 21:31, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 04.03.2012 21:25, schrieb Alexander Graf: >>> >>> >>> On 04.03.2012, at 21:21, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 04.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Alexander Graf: > > > On 04.03.2012,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 21:59 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>> g_assert(TARGET_PAGE_SIZE <= getpagesize()) > >>> > >>> Just declare the above case as unsupported and abort if we > encounter it. > >> > >> What I'm trying to tell you is that it's the default case on book3s > ppc! ;) > > > > Exactl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 17:46 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote: > Except for ppcemb-softmmu (1k), which is irrelevant for KVM AFAIU. > > Maybe just add an assert and be done with it? Well, my patch should work anyway, as long as getpagesize() returns a higher power of two. The case that wouldn't work (

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.03.2012, at 21:31, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 04.03.2012 21:25, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> >> >> On 04.03.2012, at 21:21, Andreas Färber wrote: >> >>> Am 04.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Alexander Graf: On 04.03.2012, at 17:46, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 04.03.201

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.03.2012 21:25, schrieb Alexander Graf: > > > On 04.03.2012, at 21:21, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 04.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Alexander Graf: >>> >>> >>> On 04.03.2012, at 17:46, Andreas Färber wrote: >>> Am 04.03.2012 12:53, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Sun, 2012-03-04

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.03.2012, at 21:21, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 04.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> >> >> On 04.03.2012, at 17:46, Andreas Färber wrote: >> >>> Am 04.03.2012 12:53, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/28/2012 11:

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.03.2012 19:46, schrieb Alexander Graf: > > > On 04.03.2012, at 17:46, Andreas Färber wrote: > >> Am 04.03.2012 12:53, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: >>> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-2

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04.03.2012, at 17:46, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 04.03.2012 12:53, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: >> On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > What if T

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 04.03.2012 12:53, schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> What if TARGET_PAGE_SIZE > getpagesize()? Or is that impossible? >>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
On 03/04/2012 01:53 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > > > > What if TARGET_PAGE_SIZE > getpagesize()? Or is that impos

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 12:49 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > > What if TARGET_PAGE_SIZE > getpagesize()? Or is that impossible? > > > > We have yet to encounter such a case. It's not cu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-04 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/28/2012 11:48 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > What if TARGET_PAGE_SIZE > getpagesize()? Or is that impossible? > > We have yet to encounter such a case. It's not currently possible on > power (some old embedded chips could do 1K

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-03-03 Thread Blue Swirl
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 00:36, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 26.02.2012, at 22:41, Blue Swirl wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:23, David Gibson >> wrote: >>> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt >>> >>> If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which >>> happens for example on ppc64

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-28 Thread David Gibson
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:32:51AM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 24.02.2012, at 01:23, David Gibson wrote: > > > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > > th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 24.02.2012, at 01:23, David Gibson wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > the dirty tracking doesn't work. > > Cc: Avi Kivity > Cc: Marcelo Tossatti > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-28 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 14:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > What if TARGET_PAGE_SIZE > getpagesize()? Or is that impossible? We have yet to encounter such a case. It's not currently possible on power (some old embedded chips could do 1K and 2K page sizes in the TLB iirc but we never supported that in

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-28 Thread Avi Kivity
On 02/24/2012 02:23 AM, David Gibson wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > the dirty tracking doesn't work. > > Cc: Avi Kivity > Cc: Marcelo Tossatti > > Signe

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-26 Thread Alexander Graf
On 26.02.2012, at 22:41, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:23, David Gibson > wrote: >> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt >> >> If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which >> happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, >> the dirty tracking doe

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 11:16 +1100, David Gibson wrote: > > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > > > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > > > the dirty tracking doesn't work. > > > > I think a better solution would be to push this to memo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-26 Thread David Gibson
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:41:17PM +, Blue Swirl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:23, David Gibson > wrote: > > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > > the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-26 Thread Blue Swirl
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 00:23, David Gibson wrote: > From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > If the kernel page size is larger than TARGET_PAGE_SIZE, which > happens for example on ppc64 with kernels compiled for 64K pages, > the dirty tracking doesn't work. I think a better solution would be to push t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: Fix dirty tracking with large kernel page size

2012-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> diff --git a/kvm-all.c b/kvm-all.c > index 5e188bf..3f8cfd9 100644 > --- a/kvm-all.c > +++ b/kvm-all.c > @@ -348,10 +348,11 @@ static int kvm_set_migration_log(int enable) > static int kvm_get_dirty_pages_log_range(MemoryRegionSection *section, > unsigne