Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm: Do not validate/devalidate PGT_none type

2024-04-23 Thread Jan Beulich
On 31.10.2023 17:22, Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen wrote: > This commit prevents PGT_none type pages to be validated/devalidated. This isn't quite true. It is rather the case that (de)validation of this type is trivial, and hence can be short-circuited just like is done for certain other types. >

[RFC PATCH v3 2/3] x86/mm: Do not validate/devalidate PGT_none type

2023-10-31 Thread Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen
This commit prevents PGT_none type pages to be validated/devalidated. This is required for the use-case in which a guest-agnostic resource is allocated. In this case, these pages may be accessible by an "owning" PV domain. To lock the page from guest pov, pages are required to be marked with