Re: [PATCH net-next V4 5/5] vhost: access vq metadata through kernel virtual address

From: Jason Wang
Date: Fri Jan 25 2019 - 04:24:28 EST



On 2019/1/25 äå11:03, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
+/* Suppress the vma that needs writeback since we can not track dirty
+ * pages now.
+ */
+static bool vma_can_vmap(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
+{
+ return vma_is_anonymous(vma) || is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) ||
+ vma_is_shmem(vma);
+}
+
IIUC a second but anonymous memory needs writeback too, just to swap.
I'm not an MM person so I might be off.


Right, my fault, I mean the vma that needs dirty page tracking.

Thanks