Re: [PATCH v8 06/13] KVM: x86: Generalize private fault lookups to guest_memfd fault lookups

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Fuad Tabba wrote:
> Until now, faults to private memory backed by guest_memfd are always
> consumed from guest_memfd whereas faults to shared memory are consumed
> from anonymous memory. Subsequent patches will allow sharing guest_memfd
> backed memory in-place, and mapping it by the host. Faults to in-place
> shared memory should be consumed from guest_memfd as well.
> 
> In order to facilitate that, generalize the fault lookups. Currently,
> only private memory is consumed from guest_memfd and therefore as it
> stands, this patch does not change the behavior.
> 
> Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Fuad Tabba <tabba@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>

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