Re: [PATCH 1 of 7] x86: add _PAGE_IOMAP pte flag for IO mappings

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Sep 09 2008 - 09:32:27 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Use one of the software-defined PTE bits to indicate that a mapping is
intended for an IO address. On native hardware this is irrelevent,
since a physical address is a physical address. But in a virtual
environment, physical addresses are also virtualized, so there needs
to be some way to distinguish between pseudo-physical addresses and
actual hardware addresses; _PAGE_IOMAP indicates this intent.

By default, __supported_pte_mask masks out _PAGE_IOMAP, so it doesn't
even appear in the final pagetable.

Could PTE_SPECIAL, added for get_user_pages_really_fast(), be reused for this?

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