From: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
To: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Cc: kernel-team@android.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, will@kernel.org,
kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: arm64: Unify MMIO and mem host stage-2 pools
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:31:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4e4647166447d8fd22b360369de4acb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602094347.3730846-5-qperret@google.com>
On 2021-06-02 10:43, Quentin Perret wrote:
> We currently maintain two separate memory pools for the host stage-2,
> one for pages used in the page-table when mapping memory regions, and
> the other to map MMIO regions. The former is large enough to map all of
> memory with page granularity and the latter can cover an arbitrary
> portion of IPA space, but allows to 'recycle' pages.
>
> However, this split makes accounting difficult to manage as pages at
> intermediate levels of the page-table may be used to map both memory
> and
> MMIO regions. Simplify the scheme by merging both pools into one. This
> means we can now hit the -ENOMEM case in the memory abort path, but
> we're still guaranteed forward-progress in the worst case by unmapping
> MMIO regions. On the plus side this also means we can usually map a lot
> more MMIO space at once if memory ranges happen to be mapped with block
> mappings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
This patch fails to apply on top of -rc4. Did you use some more exotic
base or, as I suspect, a development tree?
Please check and respin the series if necessary.
M.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-02 9:43 [PATCH v2 0/7] KVM: arm64: Reduce hyp_vmemmap overhead Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] KVM: arm64: Move hyp_pool locking out of refcount helpers Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] KVM: arm64: Use refcount at hyp to check page availability Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] KVM: arm64: Remove list_head from hyp_page Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: arm64: Unify MMIO and mem host stage-2 pools Quentin Perret
2021-06-06 10:31 ` Marc Zyngier [this message]
2021-06-07 8:04 ` Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] KVM: arm64: Remove hyp_pool pointer from struct hyp_page Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] KVM: arm64: Use less bits for hyp_page order Quentin Perret
2021-06-02 9:43 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] KVM: arm64: Use less bits for hyp_page refcount Quentin Perret
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