Re: [PATCH] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots

Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02T16:27:56Z

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:58:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 02/09/2013 12:11, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> >> >
> >> > Got it, thanks for your explanation.
> >> >
> >> > BTW, if you and Paolo are busy on other things, i am happy to fix these issues. :)
> > I am busy with reviews mostly :). If you are not to busy with lockless
> > write protection then fine with me. Lest wait for Paolo's input on
> > proposed API though.
>
> No problem, I'm happy to do this kind of exercise. I like the API you
> proposed. I can do this change on top of the API change. However,
> since this bug is "in the wild" it may be applicable to stable@ as well.
> If you agree, I will also post v2 of this patch for stable kernels as
> soon as we agree on the desired faulting behavior.
>
I am OK with having minimal patch for backporting to stable and doing
API changes + fixes for other call sites on top.

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Gleb.