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From:   Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:17:13 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/13] X86/nVMX: handle_vmon: Read 4 bytes from guest memory
To:     KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
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        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 3:22 PM, KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> wrote:
> Read the data directly from guest memory instead of the map->read->unmap
> sequence. This also avoids using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() which
> assumes that there is a "struct page" for guest memory.
>
> Suggested-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de>
Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>