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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 16:20:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+EHjTy+2JG_=Xw5ojwZAW6+3Nr4-4a8YCBxWN5PmAhh7jjT+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220923005319.wkzpl36uailh4zbw@box.shutemov.name>

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 1:53 AM Kirill A . Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 07:49:18PM +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022, Wang, Wei W wrote:
> > > On Thursday, September 15, 2022 10:29 PM, Chao Peng wrote:
> > > > +int inaccessible_get_pfn(struct file *file, pgoff_t offset, pfn_t *pfn,
> > > > +                  int *order)
> > >
> > > Better to remove "order" from this interface?
> >
> > Hard 'no'.
> >
> > > Some callers only need to get pfn, and no need to bother with
> > > defining and inputting something unused. For callers who need the "order",
> > > can easily get it via thp_order(pfn_to_page(pfn)) on their own.
> >
> > That requires (a) assuming the pfn is backed by struct page, and (b) assuming the
> > struct page is a transparent huge page.  That might be true for the current
> > implementation, but it most certainly will not always be true.
> >
> > KVM originally did things like this, where there was dedicated code for THP vs.
> > HugeTLB, and it was a mess.  The goal here is very much to avoid repeating those
> > mistakes.  Have the backing store _tell_ KVM how big the mapping is, don't force
> > KVM to rediscover the info on its own.
>
> I guess we can allow order pointer to be NULL to cover caller that don't
> need to know the order. Is it useful?

I think that would be useful. In pKVM we don't need to know the order,
and I had to use a dummy variable when porting V7.

Cheers,
/fuad


> --
>   Kiryl Shutsemau / Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15 14:29 [PATCH v8 0/8] KVM: mm: fd-based approach for supporting KVM Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 1/8] mm/memfd: Introduce userspace inaccessible memfd Chao Peng
2022-09-19  9:12   ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-19 19:10     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-21 21:10       ` Andy Lutomirski
2022-09-22 13:23         ` Wang, Wei W
2022-09-23 15:20         ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-23 15:19       ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:23         ` Chao Peng
2022-09-26 15:51           ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-27 22:47             ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-30 16:19               ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-13 13:34                 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 10:31                   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-17 14:58                     ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 19:05                       ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-19 13:30                         ` Chao Peng
2022-10-18  0:33                 ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 15:04                   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-23  0:58     ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-09-26 10:35       ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-26 14:48         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-09-26 14:53           ` David Hildenbrand
2022-09-27 23:23             ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-28 13:36               ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-09-22 13:26   ` Wang, Wei W
2022-09-22 19:49     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-09-23  0:53       ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-09-23 15:20         ` Fuad Tabba [this message]
2022-09-30 16:14   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-30 16:23     ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-03  7:33       ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-03 11:01         ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-10-04 15:39           ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06  8:50   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06 13:04     ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2022-10-17 13:00   ` Vlastimil Babka
2022-10-17 16:19     ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-17 16:39       ` Gupta, Pankaj
2022-10-17 21:56         ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-18 13:42           ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-19 15:32             ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-20 10:50               ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-21 13:54                 ` Chao Peng
2022-10-21 16:53                   ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 12:23   ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-10-21 13:47     ` Chao Peng
2022-10-21 16:18       ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-24 14:59         ` Kirill A . Shutemov
2022-10-24 15:26           ` David Hildenbrand
2022-11-03 16:27           ` Vishal Annapurve
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 2/8] KVM: Extend the memslot to support fd-based private memory Chao Peng
2022-09-16  9:14   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-09-16  9:53     ` Chao Peng
2022-09-26 10:26   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:04     ` Chao Peng
2022-09-29 22:45   ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-09-29 23:22     ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-05 13:04   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-05 22:05     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06  9:00   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-06 14:58   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06 15:07     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-06 15:34       ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-07 11:14         ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-07 14:58           ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-07 21:54             ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-08 16:15               ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-08 17:35                 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-10  8:25                   ` Chao Peng
2022-10-12  8:14                     ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 3/8] KVM: Add KVM_EXIT_MEMORY_FAULT exit Chao Peng
2022-09-16  9:17   ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-09-16  9:54     ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 4/8] KVM: Use gfn instead of hva for mmu_notifier_retry Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 5/8] KVM: Register/unregister the guest private memory regions Chao Peng
2022-09-26 10:36   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-26 14:07     ` Chao Peng
2022-10-11  9:48   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-12  2:35     ` Chao Peng
2022-10-17 10:15       ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-17 22:17         ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 13:23           ` Chao Peng
2022-10-19 15:02             ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-19 16:09               ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-19 18:32                 ` Fuad Tabba
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 6/8] KVM: Update lpage info when private/shared memory are mixed Chao Peng
2022-09-29 16:52   ` Isaku Yamahata
2022-09-30  8:59     ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 7/8] KVM: Handle page fault for private memory Chao Peng
2022-10-14 18:57   ` Sean Christopherson
2022-10-17 14:48     ` Chao Peng
2022-09-15 14:29 ` [PATCH v8 8/8] KVM: Enable and expose KVM_MEM_PRIVATE Chao Peng
2022-10-04 14:55   ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2022-10-10  8:31     ` Chao Peng
2022-10-06  8:55   ` Fuad Tabba
2022-10-10  8:33     ` Chao Peng

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