[PATCH 4/4] KVM: Remove write access permissions whendirty-page-logging is enabled

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Feb 25 2007 - 07:58:29 EST


Enabling dirty page logging is done using KVM_SET_MEMORY_REGION ioctl.
If the memory region already exists, we need to remove write accesses,
so writes will be caught, and dirty pages will be logged.

Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
index be7694d..e48b4d7 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -748,6 +748,8 @@ raced:
vcpu = vcpu_load_slot(kvm, i);
if (!vcpu)
continue;
+ if (new.flags & KVM_MEM_LOG_DIRTY_PAGES)
+ do_remove_write_access(vcpu, mem->slot);
kvm_mmu_reset_context(vcpu);
vcpu_put(vcpu);
}
-
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