From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>,
Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>,
Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] KVM: Cleanup and unify kvm_mmu_memory_cache usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 09:06:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bedae60cc8a6c6c3b77b52e3d3c7bbe2@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200605213853.14959-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Hi Sean,
On 2020-06-05 22:38, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> This series resurrects Christoffer Dall's series[1] to provide a common
> MMU memory cache implementation that can be shared by x86, arm64 and
> MIPS.
>
> It also picks up a suggested change from Ben Gardon[2] to clear shadow
> page tables during initial allocation so as to avoid clearing entire
> pages while holding mmu_lock.
>
> The front half of the patches do house cleaning on x86's memory cache
> implementation in preparation for moving it to common code, along with
> a
> fair bit of cleanup on the usage. The middle chunk moves the patches
> to
> common KVM, and the last two chunks convert arm64 and MIPS to the
> common
> implementation.
>
> Cleanup aside, the notable difference from Christoffer and Ben's
> proposed
> patches is to make __GFP_ZERO optional, e.g. to allow x86 to skip
> zeroing
> for its gfns array and to provide line of sight for my
> cannot-yet-be-discussed-in-detail use case for non-zero initialized
> shadow
> page tables[3].
>
> Tested on x86 only, no testing whatsoever on arm64 or MIPS.
I've given it a go on a small bunch of arm64 boxes, and nothing caught
fire!
As Ben noticed, the series isn't bisectable (easily fixed) and there is
some
nagging conflicts with the current state of mainline.
Overall, a very welcome cleanup. The only point of contention is the
change
in allocation accounting on arm64, but there is an easy fix for that.
Thanks,
M.
--
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-05 21:38 [PATCH 00/21] KVM: Cleanup and unify kvm_mmu_memory_cache usage Sean Christopherson
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 01/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Track the associated kmem_cache in the MMU caches Sean Christopherson
2020-06-09 21:07 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 02/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate "page" variant of memory cache helpers Sean Christopherson
2020-06-09 22:54 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 03/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Use consistent "mc" name for kvm_mmu_memory_cache locals Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 22:03 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 04/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove superfluous gotos from mmu_topup_memory_caches() Sean Christopherson
2020-06-09 22:57 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 05/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Try to avoid crashing KVM if a MMU memory cache is empty Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 22:12 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-17 0:53 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-17 16:36 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 06/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Move fast_page_fault() call above mmu_topup_memory_caches() Sean Christopherson
2020-06-09 23:03 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 07/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Topup memory caches after walking GVA->GPA Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 22:34 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 08/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Clean up the gorilla math in mmu_topup_memory_caches() Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 22:20 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 09/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Separate the memory caches for shadow pages and gfn arrays Sean Christopherson
2020-06-09 23:56 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 10/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Make __GFP_ZERO a property of the memory cache Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 18:57 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-22 19:40 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 11/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Zero allocate shadow pages (outside of mmu_lock) Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 18:49 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 12/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Skip filling the gfn cache for guaranteed direct MMU topups Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 18:52 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 13/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Prepend "kvm_" to memory cache helpers that will be global Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 18:56 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 14/21] KVM: Move x86's version of struct kvm_mmu_memory_cache to common code Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 19:01 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-10 21:58 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-22 16:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-11 7:42 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 15/21] KVM: Move x86's MMU memory cache helpers to common KVM code Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 20:24 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 16/21] KVM: arm64: Drop @max param from mmu_topup_memory_cache() Sean Christopherson
2020-06-10 22:00 ` Ben Gardon
2020-06-11 15:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 17/21] KVM: arm64: Use common code's approach for __GFP_ZERO with memory caches Sean Christopherson
2020-06-11 7:59 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-11 15:43 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-11 15:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 18/21] KVM: arm64: Use common KVM implementation of MMU " Sean Christopherson
2020-06-11 8:01 ` Marc Zyngier
2020-06-11 15:46 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 19/21] KVM: MIPS: Drop @max param from mmu_topup_memory_cache() Sean Christopherson
2020-06-08 8:56 ` Huacai Chen
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 20/21] KVM: MIPS: Account pages used for GPA page tables Sean Christopherson
2020-06-08 8:56 ` Huacai Chen
2020-06-05 21:38 ` [PATCH 21/21] KVM: MIPS: Use common KVM implementation of MMU memory caches Sean Christopherson
2020-06-08 8:57 ` Huacai Chen
2020-06-11 8:06 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
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