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Date:	Fri, 29 May 2015 21:23:47 +0200
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	guangrong.xiao@...ux.intel.com, bdas@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 07/13] KVM: add vcpu-specific functions to
 read/write/translate GFNs

2015-05-27 19:05+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -1616,6 +1727,27 @@ int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
|  int kvm_write_guest(struct kvm *kvm, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
|  		    unsigned long len)
|  {
|  	gfn_t gfn = gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
|  	int seg;
|  	int offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
|  	int ret;
|  
|  	while ((seg = next_segment(len, offset)) != 0) {
|  		ret = kvm_write_guest_page(kvm, gfn, data, offset, seg);
|  		if (ret < 0)
|  			return ret;
|  		offset = 0;
|  		len -= seg;
|  		data += seg;
|  		++gfn;
|  	}
|  	return 0;
|  }
>  
> +int kvm_vcpu_write_guest(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, const void *data,
> +		         unsigned long len)
> +{
> +	gfn_t gfn = gpa >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> +	int seg;
> +	int offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
> +	int ret;
> +
> +	while ((seg = next_segment(len, offset)) != 0) {
> +		ret = kvm_vcpu_write_guest_page(vcpu, gfn, data, offset, seg);
> +		if (ret < 0)
> +			return ret;
> +		offset = 0;
> +		len -= seg;
> +		data += seg;
> +		++gfn;
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}

(There is no need to pass vcpu, and kvm, in this API.
 Extracting memslots early will help to keep more code common.

 I have patches that did a superset of this for the old API, so posting
 them after this series is finalized will be simple.)
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