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authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-04-03 11:02:21 +0200
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-04-27 11:00:57 +0200
commitfcd6dbac9267c1c06a205ad8bb4bd027c0ace7f7 (patch)
treea9645557d1d20d344f21ab464137a64896598d58 /arch/x86
parentKVM: add vm refcounting (diff)
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KVM: MMU: Only mark_page_accessed() if the page was accessed by the guest
If the accessed bit is not set, the guest has never accessed this page (at least through this spte), so there's no need to mark the page accessed. This provides more accurate data for the eviction algortithm. Noted by Andrea Arcangeli. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 1594ee06c920..5c4c16662c68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -549,7 +549,8 @@ static void rmap_remove(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *spte)
return;
sp = page_header(__pa(spte));
page = spte_to_page(*spte);
- mark_page_accessed(page);
+ if (*spte & PT_ACCESSED_MASK)
+ mark_page_accessed(page);
if (is_writeble_pte(*spte))
kvm_release_page_dirty(page);
else