Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:44:35 +0530 | From | Bharath Vedartham <> | Subject | [Question-kvm] Can hva_to_pfn_fast be executed in interrupt context? |
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Hi all,
I was looking at the function hva_to_pfn_fast(in virt/kvm/kvm_main) which is executed in an atomic context(even in non-atomic context, since hva_to_pfn_fast is much faster than hva_to_pfn_slow).
My question is can this be executed in an interrupt context?
The motivation for this question is that in an interrupt context, we cannot assume "current" to be the task_struct of the process of interest. __get_user_pages_fast assume current->mm when walking the process page tables.
So if this function hva_to_pfn_fast can be executed in an interrupt context, it would not be safe to retrive the pfn with __get_user_pages_fast.
Thoughts on this?
Thank you Bharath
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