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From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
To: Arn <cse.syslab@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What happens if I use get_user_pages()
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:41:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080708194120.GB8478@il.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <896ae46a0807072346o3240d1b4y91918491e9056837@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:46:12AM -0400, Arn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I use the kernel function "get_user_pages()" within a guest
> kernel module, will this ensure that the guests pages are never
> swapped out by the host ? Will it lock these pages in memory ?
> 
> (Has anyone tried this ? )

As Izik said, the answer is no. Is this the desirable outcome, or are
you trying to find a way for the guest to force the host to pin pages
in memory? If so, why?

Cheers,
Muli

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-08 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-08  6:46 What happens if I use get_user_pages() Arn
2008-07-08  9:47 ` Izik Eidus
2008-07-08 19:41 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2008-07-08 21:04   ` Arn
2008-07-09  4:40     ` Izik Eidus

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