>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Avi Kivity
>Sent: 2007年8月2日 19:00
>To: Yang, Sheng
>Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Add MSR Bitmap support in VMX
>
>Yang, Sheng wrote:
>> Add MSR Bitmap support in VMX so that some execution of RDMSR or WRMSR
>> won't cause a VM exit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Signed-off-by: Qing He <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> ---
>>  drivers/kvm/vmx.c |   44
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>  drivers/kvm/vmx.h |    3 +++
>>  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
>> index 3b901fe..bebe0d4 100644
>> --- a/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
>> +++ b/drivers/kvm/vmx.c
>> @@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vmcs *, current_vmcs);
>>
>>  static struct page *vmx_io_bitmap_a;
>>  static struct page *vmx_io_bitmap_b;
>> +static struct page *vmx_msr_bitmap;
>>
>>
>
>hmm.  While there's nothing wrong with the patch, there is a simpler way
>to do this:
>
>    static unsigned long vmx_msr_bitmap[PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(unsigned
>long)] __aligned(PAGE_SIZE);
>
>now there's no need to allocate, error-check, free, or kmap the memory.
>The io bitmaps can receive similar treatment.

Well, though not so important, kmapping do have a tiny advantage, it uses less 
virtual space if HIGHMEM is used. This makes sense when 1G limited kernel space 
is used, although it's highly unlikely to be a real problem.

Either way, I'm OK.

>
>--
>error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
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