Re: [PATCH RFC 3/5] KVM: Use rapper functions to create and destroy dirty bitmaps

Avi Kivity
2010-04-12T09:13:41Z

On 04/12/2010 05:07 AM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
> (2010/04/12 2:13), Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 04/09/2010 12:34 PM, Takuya Yoshikawa wrote:
>>> For x86, we will change the allocation and free parts to do_mmap() and
>>> do_munmap(). This patch makes it cleaner.
>>>
>>
>> Should be done for all architectures. I don't want different ways of
>> creating dirty bitmaps for different architectures.
>>
>
> OK. So the only difference for other(generic) implementation would be
> if we pin bitmaps or not.

Well, ppc shouldn't need to pin the bitmap either, I'd think.

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