linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: MMU: release noslot pfn on the fail path properly

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:22:27 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: MMU: release noslot pfn on the fail path properly

On 09/07/2012 09:13 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> We can not directly call kvm_release_pfn_clean to release the pfn
> since we can meet noslot pfn which is used to cache mmio info into
> spte
> 
> Introduce mmu_release_pfn_clean to do this kind of thing
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c         |   19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h |    4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 399c177..3c10bca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -2432,6 +2432,16 @@ done:
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> +/*
> + * The primary user is page fault path which call it to properly
> + * release noslot_pfn.
> + */
> +static void mmu_release_pfn_clean(pfn_t pfn)
> +{
> +	if (!is_error_pfn(pfn))
> +		kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> +}
> +

Too many APIs, each slightly different.  How do I know which one to call?

Please change kvm_release_pfn_*() instead, calling some arch hook (or
even #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_HAS_FAST_MMIO) to check for the special case.




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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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