From: "Zhang,Yi" <yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
dan.j.williams@intel.com, jack@suse.cz, hch@lst.de,
yu.c.zhang@intel.com, dave.jiang@intel.com
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, yi.z.zhang@intel.com, rkrcmar@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:11:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c4e1c527-a372-bd6a-a101-5a8e9026e7c1@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1531241281.git.yi.z.zhang@linux.intel.com>
Added Jiang,Dave,
Ping for further review, comments.
Thanks All
Regards
Yi.
On 2018年07月11日 01:01, Zhang Yi wrote:
> 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:
> *Add documentation for MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX memory type in comment block
> *Add is_dax_page() in mm.h to differentiate the pages is from DAX device.
> *Remove the function kvm_is_nd_pfn().
>
> 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 | 9 +++++++++
> include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-10 17:01 [PATCH V2 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio Zhang Yi
2018-07-10 17:01 ` [PATCH V2 1/4] kvm: remove redundant reserved page check Zhang Yi
2018-07-10 17:01 ` [PATCH V2 2/4] mm: introduce memory type MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX Zhang Yi
2018-08-07 9:11 ` Jan Kara
2018-08-08 9:22 ` Zhang,Yi
2018-07-10 17:03 ` [PATCH V2 3/4] mm: add a function to differentiate the pages is from DAX device memory Zhang Yi
2018-08-07 9:13 ` Jan Kara
[not found] ` <cover.1531241281.git.yi.z.zhang-VuQAYsv1563Yd54FQh9/CA@public.gmane.org>
2018-07-10 17:03 ` Zhang Yi
2018-07-10 17:04 ` [PATCH V2 4/4] kvm: add a check if pfn is from NVDIMM pmem Zhang Yi
2018-07-13 14:29 ` [PATCH V2 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio Zhang,Yi
2018-07-20 14:11 ` Zhang,Yi [this message]
2018-07-20 8:32 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-07-20 16:24 ` Zhang,Yi
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