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From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: avi@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] remove kvm vmap usage
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:06:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4958149F.10101@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1230507740-10596-1-git-send-email-ieidus@redhat.com>

Izik Eidus wrote:
> Remove the vmap usage from kvm, this is needed both for ksm and
> get_user_pages != write.
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Ok so for ksm things are now all right, actully i could live without 
this vmap as well,
beacuse ksm check the page _count and every call to gva_to_page should 
increase it.

anyway before i continue with the kmap removing (again ksm doesnt need 
it, only get_user_pages != write)
does we really want to go that way?

even for the get_user_pages case we can live with the write = 0, if 
before each kmap_atomic we will call
get_user_pages (write = 1), so the page inside apic_page and time_page 
and what so ever would be safe
(when ksm will come to merge that page it will skip it with the page 
count check)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-29  0:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-28 23:42 [PATCH 0/2] remove kvm vmap usage Izik Eidus
2008-12-28 23:42 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: introducing kvm_read_guest_virt, kvm_write_guest_virt Izik Eidus
2008-12-28 23:42   ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: remove the vmap usage Izik Eidus
2008-12-29  0:06 ` Izik Eidus [this message]
2008-12-29  8:36 ` [PATCH 0/2] remove kvm " Avi Kivity

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