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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index f514a3fad9b9..0db7743c55e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: atomically. The reader uses this while running out of the MMU lock to detect in-progress updates and retry them until the writer has finished the write. + write_flooding_count: + A guest may write to a page table many times, causing a lot of + emulations if the page needs to be write-protected (see "Synchronized + and unsynchronized pages" below). Leaf pages can be unsynchronized + so that they do not trigger frequent emulation, but this is not + possible for non-leafs. This field counts the number of emulations + since the last time the page table was actually used; if emulation + is triggered too frequently on this page, KVM will unmap the page + to avoid emulation in the future. Reverse map =========== diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h index 5d28c11d5e21..6b636fd8582f 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ struct kvm_mmu_page { int clear_spte_count; #endif + /* Number of writes since the last time traversal visited this page. */ int write_flooding_count; }; |