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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
To:     Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>
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From:   Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
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Date:   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 12:03:38 -0500
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On 12/12/19 7:33 AM, Liran Alon wrote:
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Our caller grabbed the KVM mmu_lock with a successful
>> +	 * mmu_notifier_retry, so we're safe to walk the page table.
>> +	 */
>> +	switch (dev_pagemap_mapping_shift(hva, current->mm)) {
> Doesn’t dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() get “struct page” as first parameter?
> Was this changed by a commit I missed?

I changed this in Patch 1.  The place I call it in KVM has the address 
and mm available, which is the only think dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() 
really needs.  (The first thing it did was convert page to address).

I'll add some more text to patch 1's commit message about that.

Thanks,

Barret