Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:03:17 -0500 | From | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 08/13] KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:42:08AM +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote: > Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table since > using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory > that has a "struct page". > > One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle > has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the > interrupt descriptor table page on the host side.
Is the description stale? I am not seeing how you are changing the semantics here. You follow the same path - map/unmap.
Could you expand please?
> > Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> > --- > v4 -> v5: > - unmap with dirty flag > > v1 -> v2: > - Do not change the lifecycle of the mapping (pbonzini)
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