Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: MMU: retry #PF for softmmu

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Sun Nov 14 2010 - 05:47:11 EST


On 11/12/2010 08:50 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Retry #PF for softmmu only when the current vcpu has the same
root shadow page as the time when #PF occurs. it means they
have same paging environment


The process could have been killed and replaced by another using the same cr3. Or we may be running a guest that uses the same cr3 for all processes. Or another thread may have mmap()ed something else over the same address. So I think this is incorrect.

Meanwhile, I applied patches 1-4.

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