[PATCH 2/6] KVM: mmu: also return page from gfn_to_pfn

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Thu Jun 24 20:13:52 AEST 2021


On 24/06/21 11:57, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Needing kvm_pfn_page_unwrap is a sign that something might be buggy, so
>> it's a good idea to move the short name to the common case and the ugly
>> kvm_pfn_page_unwrap(gfn_to_pfn(...)) for the weird one.  In fact I'm not
>> sure there should be any kvm_pfn_page_unwrap in the end.
>
> If all callers were updated that is one thing, but from the changelog
> it sounds like that would not happen and there would be some gfn_to_pfn
> users left over.

In this patches there are, so yeah the plan is to always change the 
callers to the new way.

> But yes in the end you would either need to make gfn_to_pfn never return
> a page found via follow_pte, or change all callers to the new way. If
> the plan is for the latter then I guess that's fine.



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