From: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "Dan Williams" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Dave Jiang" <dave.jiang@intel.com>,
"Ross Zwisler" <zwisler@kernel.org>,
"Vishal Verma" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, yu.c.zhang@intel.com,
yi.z.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:50:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181113105051.2ffaf468@gnomeregan.cam.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <043a592d-6592-3053-15a0-68cc54a26deb@redhat.com>
On 2018-11-13 at 10:36 David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Note that KVM already faulted in the page (or huge page) in the host's
> > page table, and we hold the KVM mmu spinlock (grabbed before checking
> > the mmu seq).
>
> I wonder if the KVM mmu spinlock is enough for walking (not KVM
> exclusive) host page tables. Can you elaborate?
I'll update the commit message with the info from Paolo's email (about
kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()).
Thanks,
Barret
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-13 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-09 20:39 [PATCH 0/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-09 20:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible Barret Rhoden
2018-11-13 9:28 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-09 20:39 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-12 19:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 16:21 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-13 18:22 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 9:36 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-13 10:02 ` Pankaj Gupta
2018-11-13 12:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-13 15:56 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 9:09 ` Pankaj Gupta
2018-11-13 15:50 ` Barret Rhoden [this message]
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] " Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible Barret Rhoden
2018-11-26 16:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-11-26 18:32 ` Dan Williams
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Barret Rhoden
2018-11-14 21:51 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] kvm: remove redundant PageReserved() check Barret Rhoden
2018-11-27 13:31 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-11-15 0:55 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files Dan Williams
2018-12-03 17:40 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-12-03 18:32 ` Alexander Duyck
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