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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, aarcange@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] KVM: propagate fault r/w information to gup(), allow read-only mappings
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:36:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBEC632.8090600@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101019162726.570196410@redhat.com>

  On 10/19/2010 06:26 PM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> As suggested by Andrea, pass r/w error code to gup(), upgrading read fault
> to writable if host pte allows it.
>

Looks good.

>
>   static pfn_t hva_to_pfn(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long addr, bool atomic,
> -			bool *async)
> +			bool *async, bool write_fault, bool *writable)

These sort of changes make reading the callers impossible, lots of 
true/false and NULL parameters which we have no idea what they mean.

We should (later) change the functions to accept a structure with named 
fields for these parameters instead.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-20 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-19 16:26 [patch 0/3] [RFC] support read-only mappings Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-19 16:26 ` [patch 1/3] KVM: VMX: remove setting of shadow_base_ptes for EPT Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-20 10:24   ` Avi Kivity
2010-10-19 16:26 ` [patch 2/3] KVM: MMU: flush TLBs on writable -> read-only spte overwrite Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-19 16:26 ` [patch 3/3] KVM: propagate fault r/w information to gup(), allow read-only mappings Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-20 10:36   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2010-10-22 16:18 ` [patch 0/4] support read-only mappings (v2) Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-22 16:18   ` [patch 1/4] KVM: VMX: remove setting of shadow_base_ptes for EPT Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-22 16:18   ` [patch 2/4] KVM: MMU: remove kvm_mmu_set_base_ptes Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-22 16:18   ` [patch 3/4] KVM: MMU: flush TLBs on writable -> read-only spte overwrite Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-22 16:18   ` [patch 4/4] KVM: propagate fault r/w information to gup(), allow read-only memory Marcelo Tosatti
2010-10-27  9:20   ` [patch 0/4] support read-only mappings (v2) Avi Kivity

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