Re: [PATCH 2/7] vfio: Export unmap_mapping_range() wrapper

From: Peter Xu
Date: Tue Aug 10 2021 - 14:56:14 EST


On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 11:07:22AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> +void vfio_device_unmap_mapping_range(struct vfio_device *device,
> + loff_t start, loff_t len)
> +{
> + unmap_mapping_range(device->inode->i_mapping, start, len, true);

(not a big deal, but still raise this up)

It seems to me VFIO MMIO regions do not allow private maps, so even_cow==true
should be the same with even_cow==false. even_cow==true will just check the
page mapping for each pte even though they should just all match, imho, so
logically "false" should work the same and should be tiny-little faster.

Thanks,

> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfio_device_unmap_mapping_range);

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Peter Xu