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* [PATCH V5 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio
@ 2018-09-07 18:03 Zhang Yi
  2018-09-07 17:04 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
                   ` (5 more replies)
  0 siblings, 6 replies; 19+ messages in thread
From: Zhang Yi @ 2018-09-07 18:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kvm, linux-kernel, linux-nvdimm, pbonzini, dan.j.williams,
	dave.jiang, yu.c.zhang, pagupta, david, jack, hch
  Cc: linux-mm, jglisse, yi.z.zhang, rkrcmar

For device specific memory space, when we move these area of pfn to
memory zone, we will set the page reserved flag at that time, some of
these reserved for device mmio, and some of these are not, such as
NVDIMM pmem.

Now, we map these dev_dax or fs_dax pages to kvm for DIMM/NVDIMM
backend, since these pages are reserved. the check of
kvm_is_reserved_pfn() misconceives those pages as MMIO. Therefor, we
introduce 2 page map types, MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX/MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX,
to indentify these pages are from NVDIMM pmem. and let kvm treat these
as normal pages.

Without this patch, Many operations will be missed due to this
mistreatment to pmem pages. For example, a page may not have chance to
be unpinned for KVM guest(in kvm_release_pfn_clean); not able to be
marked as dirty/accessed(in kvm_set_pfn_dirty/accessed) etc.

V1:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/4/91

V2:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/10/135

V3:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/9/17

V4:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/22/17

V5:
[PATCH V3 1/4] Reviewed-by: David / Acked-by: Pankaj
[PATCH V3 2/4] Reviewed-by: Jan
[PATCH V3 3/4] Acked-by: Jan
[PATCH V3 4/4] Added "Acked-by: Pankaj", Added in-line comments: Dave

Zhang Yi (4):
  kvm: remove redundant reserved page check
  mm: introduce memory type MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX
  mm: add a function to differentiate the pages is from DAX device
    memory
  kvm: add a check if pfn is from NVDIMM pmem.

 drivers/dax/pmem.c       |  1 +
 include/linux/memremap.h |  8 ++++++++
 include/linux/mm.h       | 12 ++++++++++++
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c      | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

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2.7.4

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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
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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