From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
Ben-Ami Yassour <benami@il.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle vma regions with no backing page (v3)
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 12:33:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481ADFD4.9030705@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1209587827-5163-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> This patch allows VMA's that contain no backing page to be used for guest
> memory. This is a drop-in replacement for Ben-Ami's first page in his direct
> mmio series. Here, we continue to allow mmio pages to be represented in the
> rmap.
>
> Since v1, I've taken into account Andrea's suggestions at using VM_PFNMAP
> instead of VM_IO and changed the BUG_ON to a return of bad_page.
>
> Since v2, I've incorporated comments from Avi about returning bad_page instead
> of NULL and fixed a typo spotted by Muli.
>
>
Applied, thanks.
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2008-04-30 20:37 [PATCH] Handle vma regions with no backing page (v3) Anthony Liguori
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