On 20/02/2019 15:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The assumption (according to one comment) and hope (according to
> another) that map_domain_page_global() can't fail are both wrong on
> large enough systems. Do away with the guest_vtable field altogether,
> and establish / tear down the desired mapping as necessary.
>
> The alternatives, discarded as being undesirable, would have been to
> either crash the guest in sh_update_cr3() when the mapping fails, or to
> bubble up an error indicator, which upper layers would have a hard time
> to deal with (other than again by crashing the guest).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>

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