Re: [PATCH 0/5] [v3] fix illegal use of __pa() in KVM code

[Dave Hansen]

On 02/24/2013 01:28 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Now that the alloc_remap() has been/is being removed, is most/all of
> this being reverted?

I _believe_ alloc_remap() is the only case where we actually remapped
low memory.  However, there is still other code that does __pa()
translations for percpu areas: per_cpu_ptr_to_phys().  I _think_ it's
still theoretically possible to get some percpu data in the vmalloc() area.

> So in short, my questions are:
> 1) is the slow_virt_to_phys() necessary anymore?

kvm_vcpu_arch has a

        struct pvclock_vcpu_time_info hv_clock;

and I believe I mistook the two 'hv_clock's for each other.  However,
this doesn't hurt anything, and the performance difference is probably
horribly tiny.

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