Re: [patch 2/7] x86 PAT: Add follow_pfnmp_pte routine to help tracking pfnmap pages - v3

[Pallipadi, Venkatesh]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:31:12PM -0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:41:28AM -0800, venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Add a generic interface to follow pfn in a pfnmap vma range. This is used by
> > one of the subsequent x86 PAT related patch to keep track of memory types
> > for vma regions across vma copy and free.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Can you please reuse follow_phys for this? (preferably use the same API
> even if it requires some modification, otherwise if not possible, then
> at least can you implement a common core for both APIs).
> 

Yes. Hadn't noticed the presence of follow_phys before. Will send a patch to
handle this.

Thanks,
Venki
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