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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 14:42:15 +0300
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Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>,
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 01:27:14PM +0200, Radim Kr=C4=8Dm=C3=A1=C5=99 wrote:
> 2014-09-17 13:26+0300, Gleb Natapov:
> > For async_pf_execute() you do not need to even retry. Next guest's page=
 fault
> > will retry it for you.
>=20
> Wouldn't that be a waste of vmentries?
This is how it will work with or without this second gup. Page is not
mapped into a shadow page table on this path, it happens on a next fault.

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			Gleb.

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