Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't assume struct page for x86 MMU

2008-04-06 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: > This patch introduces a gfn_to_pfn() function and corresponding functions like > kvm_release_pfn_dirty(). Using these new functions, we can modify the x86 > MMU to no longer assume that it can always get a struct page for any given > gfn. > > We don't want to eliminate gf

[kvm-devel] [PATCH] Don't assume struct page for x86 MMU

2008-04-02 Thread Anthony Liguori
This patch introduces a gfn_to_pfn() function and corresponding functions like kvm_release_pfn_dirty(). Using these new functions, we can modify the x86 MMU to no longer assume that it can always get a struct page for any given gfn. We don't want to eliminate gfn_to_page() entirely because a numb