[PATCH 0/5] Make use of hardware reference and change bits in HPT

Alexander Graf agraf at suse.de
Sat Dec 24 00:36:19 EST 2011


On 15.12.2011, at 13:00, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> This series of patches builds on top of my previous series and
> modifies the Book3S HV memory management code to use the hardware
> reference and change bits in the guest hashed page table.  This makes
> kvm_age_hva() more efficient, lets us implement the dirty page
> tracking properly (which in turn means that things like VGA emulation
> in qemu can work), and also means that we can supply hardware
> reference and change information to the guest -- not that Linux guests
> currently use that information, but possibly they will want it in
> future, and there is an interface defined in PAPR for it.

I applied Patches 1-4 to kvm-ppc-next.


Alex



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