From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/30] mm: Export init_mm for MIPS KVM use of pgd_alloc()
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:23:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170117162329.GC24215@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a8df39719fb0570cb38e3fbb5c128fe2618e92d6.1483665879.git-series.james.hogan@imgtec.com>
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 01:32:33AM +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> Export the init_mm symbol to GPL modules so that MIPS KVM can use
> pgd_alloc() to create GVA page directory tables for trap & emulate mode,
> which runs guest code in user mode. On MIPS pgd_alloc() is implemented
> inline and refers to init_mm in order to copy kernel address space
> mappings into the new page directory.
Ackedy-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-06 1:32 [PATCH 0/30] KVM: MIPS: Implement GVA page tables James Hogan
2017-01-06 1:32 ` [PATCH 1/30] mm: Export init_mm for MIPS KVM use of pgd_alloc() James Hogan
2017-01-17 16:23 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2017-01-17 16:27 ` Ralf Baechle
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