summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/arch
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-04-03 09:02:21 (GMT)
committerAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>2008-04-27 09:00:57 (GMT)
commitfcd6dbac9267c1c06a205ad8bb4bd027c0ace7f7 (patch)
treea9645557d1d20d344f21ab464137a64896598d58 /arch
parentd39f13b0da7fa7f705fbe6c80995205d0380bc7a (diff)
downloadlinux-fsl-qoriq-fcd6dbac9267c1c06a205ad8bb4bd027c0ace7f7.tar.xz
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')
-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 1594ee0..5c4c166 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