linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE

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Date:	Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:32:16 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Xen Devel <xen-devel@...ts.xensource.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Use one of the software-defined PTE bits to indicate that a mapping is
> intended for an IO address.  On native hardware this is irrelevent,
> since a physical address is a physical address.  But in a virtual
> environment, physical addresses are also virtualized, so there needs
> to be some way to distinguish between pseudo-physical addresses and
> actual hardware addresses; _PAGE_IOMAP indicates this intent.
>
> By default, __supported_pte_mask masks out _PAGE_IOMAP, so it doesn't
> even appear in the final pagetable.
>   

Could PTE_SPECIAL, added for get_user_pages_really_fast(), be reused for 
this?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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