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    mm: provide a find_special_page vma operation · 667a0a06
    David Vrabel 提交于
    The optional find_special_page VMA operation is used to lookup the
    pages backing a VMA.  This is useful in cases where the normal
    mechanisms for finding the page don't work.  This is only called if
    the PTE is special.
    
    One use case is a Xen PV guest mapping foreign pages into userspace.
    
    In a Xen PV guest, the PTEs contain MFNs so get_user_pages() (for
    example) must do an MFN to PFN (M2P) lookup before it can get the
    page.  For foreign pages (those owned by another guest) the M2P lookup
    returns the PFN as seen by the foreign guest (which would be
    completely the wrong page for the local guest).
    
    This cannot be fixed up improving the M2P lookup since one MFN may be
    mapped onto two or more pages so getting the right page is impossible
    given just the MFN.
    Signed-off-by: NDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Acked-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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