Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Skip pae_root shadow allocation if tdp enabled

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 12:04:13 EST


On 25/07/2018 10:32, Liang Chen wrote:
> Considering the fact that the pae_root shadow is not needed when
> tdp is in use, skip the pae_root shadow page allocation to allow
> mmu creation even not being able to obtain memory from DMA32
> zone when particular cgroup cpuset.mems or mempolicy control is
> applied.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liang Chen <liangchen.linux@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index d594690..af8cc1e 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -5029,6 +5029,9 @@ static int alloc_mmu_pages(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
> struct page *page;
> int i;
>
> + if (tdp_enabled)
> + return 0;
> +
> /*
> * When emulating 32-bit mode, cr3 is only 32 bits even on x86_64.
> * Therefore we need to allocate shadow page tables in the first
>

Queued, thanks.

Paolo