From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "KVM list" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Zhang, Yu C" <yu.c.zhang@intel.com>,
linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
"Jan Kara" <jack@suse.cz>,
rkrcmar@redhat.com,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Linux MM" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5 4/4] kvm: add a check if pfn is from NVDIMM pmem.
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 11:17:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPcyv4j9K-wkq8oK-8_twWViKhyGSHD7cOE5UoRN-09xKXPq7A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8ad8ed7-ca8c-4dd7-819b-8d9c856fbe04@redhat.com>
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:24 AM David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> wrote:
[..]
> > Remove the PageReserved flag sounds more reasonable.
> > And Could we still have a flag to identify it is a device private memory, or
> > where these pages coming from?
>
> We could use a page type for that or what you proposed. (as I said, we
> might have to change hibernation code to skip the pages once we drop the
> reserved flag).
I think it would be reasonable to reject all ZONE_DEVICE pages in
saveable_page().
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-07 18:03 [PATCH V5 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio Zhang Yi
2018-09-07 17:04 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2018-09-18 14:31 ` Yi Zhang
2018-09-07 18:03 ` [PATCH V5 1/4] kvm: remove redundant reserved page check Zhang Yi
2018-09-07 18:03 ` [PATCH V5 2/4] mm: introduce memory type MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX Zhang Yi
2018-09-07 18:03 ` [PATCH V5 3/4] mm: add a function to differentiate the pages is from DAX device memory Zhang Yi
2018-09-07 18:04 ` [PATCH V5 4/4] kvm: add a check if pfn is from NVDIMM pmem Zhang Yi
2018-09-19 2:53 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-19 7:20 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-20 22:49 ` Yi Zhang
2018-09-20 21:19 ` Dan Williams
2018-09-21 22:47 ` Yi Zhang
2018-09-21 14:23 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-09-21 18:17 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2018-09-21 19:29 ` David Hildenbrand
2018-10-19 16:33 ` Barret Rhoden
2018-10-22 8:47 ` Yi Zhang
2018-09-19 10:55 ` [PATCH V5 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio Yi Zhang
2018-09-19 2:43 ` Pankaj Gupta
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