linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap

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Message-ID: <5419E89B.7020002@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:01:31 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@...gle.com>
CC:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...hat.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>,
	Paul Cassella <cassella@...y.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Faults which trigger IO release the mmap_sem

Il 17/09/2014 18:58, Andres Lagar-Cavilla ha scritto:
> Understood. So in patch 1, would kvm_gup_retry be ... just a wrapper
> around gup? That looks thin to me, and the naming of the function will
> not be accurate.

Depends on how you interpret "retry" ("with retry" vs. "retry after
_fast"). :)

My point was more to make possible future bisection easier, but I'm not
going to insist.  I'll queue the patch as soon as I get the required
Acked-by.

Paolo
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