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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] KVM: define kvm_bad_pfn statically
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:13:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501B8842.9040109@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120803000125.GB12559@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Marcelo, Paul,

Thanks for your review!

On 08/03/2012 08:01 AM, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 10:15:27AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
>> Remind me what is the guarantee that -Exxx does not clash with
>> a valid pfn number?
> 
> A pfn number is an address >> PAGE_SHIFT, so it will have the top 12
> (at least) bits clear, whereas -Exxx will have the top bit set.
> 

Yes.

As this way is hard to understand and it will break huge memory support
on PAE 32bit cpu, i have used a new way in the v2:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=134398012027025&w=2

Please review the new version.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-03  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-29  8:12 [PATCH 1/9] KVM: iommu: fix releasing unmapped page Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29  8:12 ` [PATCH 2/9] KVM: define kvm_fault_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:51   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29  8:13 ` [PATCH 3/9] KVM: define kvm_hwpoison_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:52   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29  8:14 ` [PATCH 4/9] KVM: define kvm_bad_pfn statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 13:15   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-03  0:01     ` Paul Mackerras
2012-08-03  8:13       ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2012-07-29  8:15 ` [PATCH 5/9] KVM: inline is_*_pfn functions Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29  8:15 ` [PATCH 6/9] KVM: remove the unused declare Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29  8:16 ` [PATCH 7/9] KVM: define kvm_bad_page statically Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 12:54   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-07-29  8:18 ` [PATCH 8/9] KVM: do not release the error pfn Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29 11:33   ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-08-02 13:14   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-08-03  7:46     ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-07-29  8:20 ` [PATCH 9/9] KVM: do not release the error page Xiao Guangrong

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