On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 08:47:39AM +0800, Huang Ying wrote: > Hi, Andrew, > > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 23:35 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote: > > On 01/14/2011 03:37 AM, Huang Ying wrote: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:43 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > > On 01/13/2011 10:42 AM, Huang Ying wrote: > > > > > Make __get_user_pages return -EHWPOISON for HWPOISON page only if > > > > > FOLL_HWPOISON is specified. With this patch, the interested callers > > > > > can distinguish HWPOISON page from general FAULT page, while other > > > > > callers will still get -EFAULT for pages, so the user space > > > > interface > > > > > need not to be changed. > > > > > > > > > > get_user_pages_hwpoison is added as a variant of get_user_pages that > > > > > can return -EHWPOISON for HWPOISON page. > > > > > > > > > > This feature is needed by KVM, where UCR MCE should be relayed to > > > > > guest for HWPOISON page, while instruction emulation and MMIO will > > > > be > > > > > tried for general FAULT page. > > > > > > > > > > The idea comes from Andrew Morton. > > > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Huang Ying<ying.hu...@intel.com> > > > > > Cc: Andrew Morton<a...@linux-foundation.org> > > > > > > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE > > > > > +int get_user_pages_hwpoison(struct task_struct *tsk, struct > > > > mm_struct *mm, > > > > > + unsigned long start, int nr_pages, int > > > > write, > > > > > + int force, struct page **pages, > > > > > + struct vm_area_struct **vmas); > > > > > +#else > > > > > > > > Since we'd also like to add get_user_pages_noio(), perhaps adding a > > > > flags field to get_user_pages() is better. > > > > > > Or export __get_user_pages()? > > > > That's better, yes. > > Do you think it is a good idea to export __get_user_pages() instead of > adding get_user_pages_noio() and get_user_pages_hwpoison()?
Better Andrew and/or Linus should decide it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
