Re: [Xen-devel] Sources of page dirtying for HVM domains in Xen 3.2.x

["Mike Sun" <msun@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Argh.  Forgot to reply to the list.  Sorry about that Ian.

> Within page fault handling you've also got to consider the special cases
> of MMIO, PTE accessed/dirty bit update.

And the emulated writes to guest PTs as well, correct?

One confusing thing is that it seems that since _sh_propagate() is
called before the emulated write or MMIO write that the page_dirty()
would already be called and that the page_dirty() called after the
emulated write is redundant?  I'm probably missing something though.

> Qemu-dm emulated DMA, PV driver DMA.

Any way I can have Qemu not do DMA?

Essentially I'm looking for a clean way of doing a copy-on-write on a
guest domain's memory pages.  The log-dirty mode seems most
appropriate, but I have to make sure I can copy the page before it's
dirtied/modified.  Have any good suggestions.

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