Commit e925c5ba authored Apr 30, 2007 by Avi Kivity

KVM: Assume that writes smaller than 4 bytes are to non-pagetable pages



This allows us to remove write protection earlier than otherwise.  Should
some mad OS choose to use byte writes to update pagetables, it will suffer
a performance hit, but still work correctly.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>

parent c8681339

drivers/kvm/mmu.c

+1 −0

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		@@ -1169,6 +1169,7 @@ void kvm_mmu_pre_write(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, int bytes)
		continue;
		pte_size = page->role.glevels == PT32_ROOT_LEVEL ? 4 : 8;
		misaligned = (offset ^ (offset + bytes - 1)) & ~(pte_size - 1);
		misaligned \|= bytes < 4;
		if (misaligned \|\| flooded) {
		/*
		* Misaligned accesses are too much trouble to fix