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Subject: Re: [RFC KVM 24/27] kvm/isolation: KVM page fault handler
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On 5/14/19 9:21 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 07:02:30PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
>> This sounds like a great use case for static_call().  PeterZ, do you
>> suppose we could wire up static_call() with the module infrastructure
>> to make it easy to do "static_call to such-and-such GPL module symbol
>> if that symbol is in a loaded module, else nop"?
> 
> You're basically asking it to do dynamic linking. And I suppose that is
> technically possible.
> 
> However, I'm really starting to think kvm (or at least these parts of it
> that want to play these games) had better not be a module anymore.
> 

Maybe we can use an atomic notifier (e.g. page_fault_notifier)?

alex.