From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Dr . David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
Christophe de Dinechin <dinechin@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 03/17] KVM: X86: Don't track dirty for KVM_SET_[TSS_ADDR|IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR]
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:59:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <851bd9ed-3ff3-6aef-725c-b586d819211c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191223172737.GA81196@xz-x1>
On 23/12/19 18:27, Peter Xu wrote:
> Yes. Though it is a bit tricky in that then we'll also need to make
> sure to take slots_lock or srcu to protect that hva (say, we must drop
> that hva reference before we release the locks, otherwise the hva
> could gone under us, iiuc).
Yes, kvm->slots_lock is taken by x86_set_memory_region. We need to move
that to the callers, of which several are already taking the lock (all
except vmx_set_tss_addr and kvm_arch_destroy_vm).
Paolo
> So if we want to do that we'd better
> comment on that hva value very explicitly, just in case some future
> callers of __x86_set_memory_region could cache it somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-23 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-21 1:49 [PATCH RESEND v2 00/17] KVM: Dirty ring interface Peter Xu
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 01/17] KVM: Remove kvm_read_guest_atomic() Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:45 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 02/17] KVM: X86: Change parameter for fast_page_fault tracepoint Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 03/17] KVM: X86: Don't track dirty for KVM_SET_[TSS_ADDR|IDENTITY_MAP_ADDR] Peter Xu
2019-12-21 13:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-23 17:27 ` Peter Xu
2019-12-23 17:59 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2019-12-23 20:10 ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:46 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 19:15 ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 19:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 21:02 ` Peter Xu
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 04/17] KVM: Cache as_id in kvm_memory_slot Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 05/17] KVM: Add build-time error check on kvm_run size Peter Xu
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 06/17] KVM: Pass in kvm pointer into mark_page_dirty_in_slot() Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 07/17] KVM: Move running VCPU from ARM to common code Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 08/17] KVM: X86: Implement ring-based dirty memory tracking Peter Xu
2019-12-24 6:16 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-24 15:08 ` Peter Xu
2019-12-25 3:23 ` Jason Wang
2020-01-08 15:52 ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 17:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 19:06 ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 19:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-01-08 19:59 ` Peter Xu
2020-01-08 20:06 ` Paolo Bonzini
2019-12-21 1:49 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 09/17] KVM: Make dirty ring exclusive to dirty bitmap log Peter Xu
2019-12-21 1:58 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 10/17] KVM: Don't allocate dirty bitmap if dirty ring is enabled Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 11/17] KVM: selftests: Always clear dirty bitmap after iteration Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 12/17] KVM: selftests: Sync uapi/linux/kvm.h to tools/ Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 13/17] KVM: selftests: Use a single binary for dirty/clear log test Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 14/17] KVM: selftests: Introduce after_vcpu_run hook for dirty " Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 15/17] KVM: selftests: Add dirty ring buffer test Peter Xu
2019-12-24 6:18 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-24 15:22 ` Peter Xu
2019-12-24 6:50 ` Jason Wang
2019-12-24 15:24 ` Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 16/17] KVM: selftests: Let dirty_log_test async for dirty ring test Peter Xu
2019-12-21 2:04 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 17/17] KVM: selftests: Add "-c" parameter to dirty log test Peter Xu
2019-12-24 6:34 ` [PATCH RESEND v2 00/17] KVM: Dirty ring interface Jason Wang
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=851bd9ed-3ff3-6aef-725c-b586d819211c@redhat.com \
--to=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=dgilbert@redhat.com \
--cc=dinechin@redhat.com \
--cc=jasowang@redhat.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=peterx@redhat.com \
--cc=sean.j.christopherson@intel.com \
--cc=vkuznets@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).