Re: [PATCH v5 08/13] KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:42:08AM +0100, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the posted interrupt descriptor table since
> using kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page() and kmap() will only work for guest memory
> that has a "struct page".
> 
> One additional semantic change is that the virtual host mapping lifecycle
> has changed a bit. It now has the same lifetime of the pinning of the
> interrupt descriptor table page on the host side.

Is the description stale? I am not seeing how you are changing the
semantics here. You follow the same path - map/unmap.

Could you expand please?

> 
> Signed-off-by: KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v4 -> v5:
> - unmap with dirty flag
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - Do not change the lifecycle of the mapping (pbonzini)