From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] KVM: Fix kernel allocated memory slot Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:09:18 +0200 Message-ID: <491AAB4E.4000807@redhat.com> References: <1226388640-32200-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> <1226415505.458.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Sheng Yang , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Hollis Blanchard Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:34817 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751780AbYKLKJX (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:09:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1226415505.458.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hollis Blanchard wrote: > Wow, I didn't realize we still had kernel-allocated guest memory. Why is > that? > As mentioned, both for compat with the original 2.6.22 interface and for guest memory needed by kvm itself. But note that this kernel-allocated memory is equivalent to user memory - it is mmap()ed in and thus pageable. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function