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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen 
| To: | Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Subject: | Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen |  
| From: | Derek Murray <Derek.Murray@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |  
| Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:17:23 +0000 |  
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Keir Fraser wrote:
 
Actually I'm not so sure now. Presumably you add VM_PFNMAP to make
vm_normal_page() return NULL? But actually I would expect pte_pfn() to
return max_mapnr because the mapped page is not a local page. And that
should cause vm_normal_page() to return NULL always, regardless of whether
you assert VM_PFNMAP. Is gntdev being used to grant-and-map local pages in
the test that causes the crash?
 
That's right (gntdev is being used to map (but not grant) a local page). 
The test case creates a virtual block device in Dom0, and attempts to 
map its ring buffer in a user-space daemon in Dom0. Therefore pte_pfn 
succeeds. 
Regards,
Derek.
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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, (continued)
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Gerd Hoffmann
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Gerd Hoffmann
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Stephen C. Tweedie
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Gerd Hoffmann
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Gerd Hoffmann
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Keir Fraser
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Keir Fraser
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen,
Derek Murray <=
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Keir Fraser
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Keir Fraser
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Isaku Yamahata
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Keir Fraser
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Isaku Yamahata
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Gerd Hoffmann
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Next steps with pv_ops for Xen, Derek Murray
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