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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 4 of 5] Nested p2m: flush only one p2m table when

To: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 4 of 5] Nested p2m: flush only one p2m table when reallocating
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:44:54 +0200
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I think, this patch can be folded into the first one.
Otherwise:

Ack-by: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>

On 06/27/11 12:46, Tim Deegan wrote:
# HG changeset patch
# User Tim Deegan<Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1308929084 -3600
# Node ID 0753351afbbe1c3fdde3a72dfb5a67105524f813
# Parent  97e15368260c093078e1f1bc04521de30c1792cc
Nested p2m: flush only one p2m table when reallocating.
It's unhelpful to flush all of them when we only need one.

Reported-by: Christoph Egger<Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan<Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 97e15368260c -r 0753351afbbe xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c
--- a/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c     Fri Jun 24 16:24:44 2011 +0100
+++ b/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c     Fri Jun 24 16:24:44 2011 +0100
@@ -1120,7 +1120,6 @@ p2m_get_nestedp2m(struct vcpu *v, uint64
      volatile struct nestedvcpu *nv =&vcpu_nestedhvm(v);
      struct domain *d;
      struct p2m_domain *p2m;
-    int i;

      /* Mask out low bits; this avoids collisions with CR3_EADDR */
      cr3&= ~(0xfffull);
@@ -1146,12 +1145,9 @@ p2m_get_nestedp2m(struct vcpu *v, uint64
      }

      /* All p2m's are or were in use. Take the least recent used one,
-     * flush it and reuse.
-     */
-    for (i = 0; i<  MAX_NESTEDP2M; i++) {
-        p2m = p2m_getlru_nestedp2m(d, NULL);
-        p2m_flush_locked(p2m);
-    }
+     * flush it and reuse. */
+    p2m = p2m_getlru_nestedp2m(d, NULL);
+    p2m_flush_locked(p2m);
      nv->nv_p2m = p2m;
      p2m->cr3 = cr3;
      nv->nv_flushp2m = 0;



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