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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:10:49 +0900
From: Takuya Yoshikawa <takuya.yoshikawa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] KVM: MMU: abstract spte write-protect
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:33:19 -0300
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> wrote:

> It is preferable to remove all large sptes including read-only ones, the
> current behaviour, then to verify that no read->write transition can
> occur in fault paths (fault paths which are increasing in number).
> 

I think we should use separate function than spte_write_protect() for
the large case.

	Takuya