Re: [PATCH v3 05/11] KVM: MMU: do not mark accessed bit on pte writepath

[Avi Kivity]

On 09/13/2011 09:29 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 06:53 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >  On 08/30/2011 05:35 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> >>  In current code, the accessed bit is always set when page fault occurred,
> >>  do not need to set it on pte write path
> >
> >  What about speculative sptes that are then only accessed via emulation?
> >
>
> The gfn is read and written only via emulation? I think this case is very
> very rare?

Probably...

Marcelo? Can you think of another case where spte.accessed is needed?

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