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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2010-05-26 04:49:59 -0400
committerAvi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>2010-08-01 03:35:52 -0400
commit2032a93d66fa282ba0f2ea9152eeff9511fa9a96 (patch)
treef0bbd50c3f237fa93c87207dc29602cbdcf9ad63 /Documentation/kvm/mmu.txt
parentc8174f7b35b3018c4c7b3237ed1c792e454fd5c3 (diff)
KVM: MMU: Don't allocate gfns page for direct mmu pages
When sp->role.direct is set, sp->gfns does not contain any essential information, leaf sptes reachable from this sp are for a continuous guest physical memory range (a linear range). So sp->gfns[i] (if it was set) equals to sp->gfn + i. (PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL) Obviously, it is not essential information, we can calculate it when need. It means we don't need sp->gfns when sp->role.direct=1, Thus we can save one page usage for every kvm_mmu_page. Note: Access to sp->gfns must be wrapped by kvm_mmu_page_get_gfn() or kvm_mmu_page_set_gfn(). It is only exposed in FNAME(sync_page). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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@@ -180,7 +180,9 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
180 guest pages as leaves. 180 guest pages as leaves.
181 gfns: 181 gfns:
182 An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte. Used to 182 An array of 512 guest frame numbers, one for each present pte. Used to
183 perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. 183 perform a reverse map from a pte to a gfn. When role.direct is set, any
184 element of this array can be calculated from the gfn field when used, in
185 this case, the array of gfns is not allocated. See role.direct and gfn.
184 slot_bitmap: 186 slot_bitmap:
185 A bitmap containing one bit per memory slot. If the page contains a pte 187 A bitmap containing one bit per memory slot. If the page contains a pte
186 mapping a page from memory slot n, then bit n of slot_bitmap will be set 188 mapping a page from memory slot n, then bit n of slot_bitmap will be set