KVM: Allow cross page reads and writes from cached translations.

This patch adds support for kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init functions for
reads and writes that will cross a page.  If the range falls within
the same memslot, then this will be a fast operation.  If the range
is split between two memslots, then the slower kvm_read_guest and
kvm_write_guest are used.

Tested: Test against kvm_clock unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Andrew Honig
2013-03-29 09:35:21 -07:00
committed by Gleb Natapov
parent 09a6e1f4ad
commit 8f964525a1
5 changed files with 46 additions and 19 deletions
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@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
int kvm_write_guest_cached(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
void *data, unsigned long len);
int kvm_gfn_to_hva_cache_init(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_hva_cache *ghc,
gpa_t gpa);
gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len);
int kvm_clear_guest_page(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn, int offset, int len);
int kvm_clear_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, unsigned long len);
struct kvm_memory_slot *gfn_to_memslot(struct kvm *kvm, gfn_t gfn);