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

From: Dmitry Osipenko
Date: Thu Sep 21 2023 - 16:32:35 EST


On 9/19/23 05:31, David Stevens wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, this tag works

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Best regards,
Dmitry