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Message-ID: <20240717163154.GF1482543@nvidia.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:31:54 -0300
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>, Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/x86/pat: Only untrack the pfn range if unmap region
On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 12:30:19PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2024 at 04:17:12PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > I'd be curious how a previous truncation on a file can tear down a PFNMAP
> > mapping -- and if there are simple ways to forbid that (if possible).
>
> Unfortunately, forbiding it may not work for vfio, as vfio would like to
> allow none (or partial) mapping on the bars.. at least so far that's the
> plan.
vfio doesn't support truncation? Or does that means something else
here?
Jason
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