(+Arm maintainers)

Hi Jan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 12:07 AM
> To: Henry Wang <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; Andrew Cooper
> <[email protected]>; George Dunlap <[email protected]>;
> Julien Grall <[email protected]>; Stefano Stabellini <[email protected]>;
> Wei Liu <[email protected]>; Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> Subject: [4.17?] Re: [PATCH] common: map_vcpu_info() wants to unshare
> the underlying page
> 
> On 25.10.2022 17:42, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:48:38AM +0200, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> Not passing P2M_UNSHARE to get_page_from_gfn() means there won't
> even be
> >> an attempt to unshare the referenced page, without any indication to the
> >> caller (e.g. -EAGAIN). Note that guests have no direct control over
> >> which of their pages are shared (or paged out), and hence they have no
> >> way to make sure all on their own that the subsequent obtaining of a
> >> writable type reference can actually succeed.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <[email protected]>
> 
> I didn't Cc you on the initial submission because mem-sharing isn't a
> supported feature, but upon reconsideration I thought I'd at least ask
> whether you would want to give this a release-ack. I don't really see
> any risk associated with it.

By looking at the patch itself, this change seems ok to me, so I think
I will not block it, but I think Arm maintainers' approval might be needed
because of the discussion in [1], so I added them for their information.
If Arm maintainers do not object the change, you can have my release-ack.

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/[email protected]/

Kind regards,
Henry

> 
> Jan

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