Excerpts from Paolo Bonzini's message of June 25, 2021 1:35 am:
> On 24/06/21 14:57, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> KVM: Fix page ref underflow for regions with valid but non-refcounted pages
>
> It doesn't really fix the underflow, it disallows mapping them in the
> first place. Since in principle t
On 24.06.21 14:57, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Excerpts from Paolo Bonzini's message of June 24, 2021 10:41 pm:
On 24/06/21 13:42, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of June 24, 2021 8:34 pm:
Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
KVM support
On 24/06/21 14:57, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
KVM: Fix page ref underflow for regions with valid but non-refcounted pages
It doesn't really fix the underflow, it disallows mapping them in the
first place. Since in principle things can break, I'd rather be
explicit, so let's go with "KVM: do not
Excerpts from Paolo Bonzini's message of June 24, 2021 10:41 pm:
> On 24/06/21 13:42, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of June 24, 2021 8:34 pm:
>>> Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory
Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of June 24, 2021 8:34 pm:
> Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
>> KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
>> follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfns may not have
>> assoicated struct pa
Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
> KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
> follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfns may not have
> assoicated struct pages, so they should not be passed to pfn_to_page.
> This series removes
On 24/06/21 13:42, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of June 24, 2021 8:34 pm:
Excerpts from David Stevens's message of June 24, 2021 1:57 pm:
KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfn
On 24/06/21 13:42, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
+static int kvm_try_get_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
+{
+ if (kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn))
+ return 1;
So !pfn_valid would always return true. Yeah, this should work and is
certainly appealing!
Paolo
+ return get_page_unless_zero(pfn
KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfns may not have
assoicated struct pages, so they should not be passed to pfn_to_page.
This series removes such calls from the x86 and arm64 secondary MMU. To
do this, this serie
On 24/06/21 05:57, David Stevens wrote:
KVM supports mapping VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP memory into the guest by using
follow_pte in gfn_to_pfn. However, the resolved pfns may not have
assoicated struct pages, so they should not be passed to pfn_to_page.
This series removes such calls from the x86 and a
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