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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1523829198-13236-1-git-send-email-karahmed@amazon.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.78 on 10.11.54.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:10:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.8]); Mon, 16 Apr 2018 11:10:52 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.4' DOMAIN:'int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'pbonzini@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 15/04/2018 23:53, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote: > Guest memory can either be directly managed by the kernel (i.e. have a "struct > page") or they can simply live outside kernel control (i.e. do not have a > "struct page"). KVM mostly support these two modes, except in a few places > where the code seems to assume that guest memory must have a "struct page". > > This patchset introduces a new mapping interface to map guest memory into host > kernel memory which also supports PFN-based memory (i.e. memory without 'struct > page'). It also converts all offending code to this interface or simply > read/write directly from guest memory. > > As far as I can see all offending code is now fixed except the APIC-access page > which I will handle in a seperate patch. I assume the caching will also be a separate patch. It looks good except that I'd squash patches 4 and 9 together. But I'd like a second set of eyes to look at it. Thanks, Paolo