Re: [PATCH 2/6] KVM: mmu: also return page from gfn_to_pfn

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Jun 24 2021 - 06:14:03 EST


On 24/06/21 11:57, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Needing kvm_pfn_page_unwrap is a sign that something might be buggy, so
it's a good idea to move the short name to the common case and the ugly
kvm_pfn_page_unwrap(gfn_to_pfn(...)) for the weird one. In fact I'm not
sure there should be any kvm_pfn_page_unwrap in the end.

If all callers were updated that is one thing, but from the changelog
it sounds like that would not happen and there would be some gfn_to_pfn
users left over.

In this patches there are, so yeah the plan is to always change the callers to the new way.

But yes in the end you would either need to make gfn_to_pfn never return
a page found via follow_pte, or change all callers to the new way. If
the plan is for the latter then I guess that's fine.