Re: [PATCH v9 6/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Handle non-refcounted pages

From: David Stevens
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 22:31:39 EST


On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 6:58 PM Dmitry Osipenko
<dmitry.osipenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 9/11/23 05:16, David Stevens wrote:
> > From: David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Handle non-refcounted pages in __kvm_faultin_pfn. This allows the host
> > to map memory into the guest that is backed by non-refcounted struct
> > pages - for example, the tail pages of higher order non-compound pages
> > allocated by the amdgpu driver via ttm_pool_alloc_page.
> >
> > The bulk of this change is tracking the is_refcounted_page flag so that
> > non-refcounted pages don't trigger page_count() == 0 warnings. This is
> > done by storing the flag in an unused bit in the sptes. There are no
> > bits available in PAE SPTEs, so non-refcounted pages can only be handled
> > on TDP and x86-64.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu_internal.h | 1 +
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 8 +++--
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.c | 4 ++-
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/spte.h | 12 +++++++-
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 22 ++++++++------
> > include/linux/kvm_host.h | 3 ++
> > virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 6 ++--
> > 8 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
>
> Could you please tell which kernel tree you used for the base of this
> series? This patch #6 doesn't apply cleanly to stable/mainline/next/kvm
>
> error: sha1 information is lacking or useless (arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c).
> error: could not build fake ancestor

This series is based on the kvm next branch (i.e.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git/log/?h=next). The
specific hash is d011151616e73de20c139580b73fa4c7042bd861.

-David