Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:32:16 +0300 | | From | Avi Kivity <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Use one of the software-defined PTE bits to indicate that a mapping is > intended for an IO address. On native hardware this is irrelevent, > since a physical address is a physical address. But in a virtual > environment, physical addresses are also virtualized, so there needs > to be some way to distinguish between pseudo-physical addresses and > actual hardware addresses; _PAGE_IOMAP indicates this intent. > > By default, __supported_pte_mask masks out _PAGE_IOMAP, so it doesn't > even appear in the final pagetable. >
Could PTE_SPECIAL, added for get_user_pages_really_fast(), be reused for this?
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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