On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:47:16PM +0300, Izik Eidus wrote: > When using mmu notifiers, we are allowed to remove the page count > reference tooken by get_user_pages to a specific page that is mapped > inside the shadow page tables. > > This is needed so we can balance the pagecount against mapcount > checking. > > (Right now kvm increase the pagecount and does not increase the > mapcount when mapping page into shadow page table entry, > so when comparing pagecount against mapcount, you have no > reliable result.) > > Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <iei...@redhat.com>
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