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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 10:40:53 +0800
From:   Haozhong Zhang <haozhong.zhang@...el.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        rkrcmar@...hat.com, Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@...il.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        ivan.d.cuevas.escareno@...el.com, karthik.kumar@...el.com,
        Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
        Olif Chapman <olif.chapman@...cle.com>,
        Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] x86/mm: add a function to check if a pfn is UC/UC-

On 12/18/17 13:55 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/11/2017 08:56, Haozhong Zhang wrote:
> > +bool pat_pfn_is_uc_or_uc_minus(unsigned long pfn)
> > +{
> > +	enum page_cache_mode cm = lookup_memtype(PFN_PHYS(pfn));
> > +
> > +	return cm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC || cm == _PAGE_CACHE_MODE_UC_MINUS;
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pat_pfn_is_uc_or_uc_minus);
> > +
> 
> As discussed in the reply to v2, this should include WC too.  The
> function name could become something like pat_pfn_downgraded_by_uc_mtrr.

Or shall we just expose lookup_memtype(), and keep all other logic in
KVM? The function name still looks strange somehow, and the check of
memory type makes more sense and would be easier to understand in the
context of KVM.

Haozhong