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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 15:47:22 +0000 David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> wrote:

> The optional find_special_page VMA operation is used to lookup the
> pages backing a VMA. This is useful in cases where the normal
> mechanisms for finding the page don't work. This is only called if
> the PTE is special.
>
> One use case is a Xen PV guest mapping foreign pages into userspace.
>
> In a Xen PV guest, the PTEs contain MFNs so get_user_pages() (for
> example) must do an MFN to PFN (M2P) lookup before it can get the
> page. For foreign pages (those owned by another guest) the M2P lookup
> returns the PFN as seen by the foreign guest (which would be
> completely the wrong page for the local guest).
>
> This cannot be fixed up improving the M2P lookup since one MFN may be
> mapped onto two or more pages so getting the right page is impossible
> given just the MFN.

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>


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