linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm: arm/arm64: Rework gpa callback handlers

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Date:   Mon, 27 Mar 2017 16:18:14 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:     Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        christoffer.dall@...aro.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: arm/arm64: Rework gpa callback handlers

On 24/03/17 18:00, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 06:26:42PM +0000, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> In order to perform an operation on a gpa range, the hyp iterates
>
> the hyp ?

To be precise "the host" ?

>
>> over each page in a user memory slot for the given range. This is
>> inefficient while dealing with a big range (e.g, a VMA), especially
>> while unmaping a range. At present, with stage2 unmap on a range with
>> a hugepage backed region, we clear the PMD when we unmap the first
>> page in the loop. The remaining iterations simply traverse the page table
>> down to the PMD level only to see that nothing is in there.
>>
>> This patch reworks the code to invoke the callback handlers on the
>> biggest range possible within the memory slot to avoid reduce the
>> number of iterations.
>
> avoid reduce?
>
> did you mean "to reduce the number of times the handler is called" ?

Yep, thanks for spotting.

>
>>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
>> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@...aro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c | 31 +++++++++++++------------------
>>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 37e67f5..8357fed 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kvm/mmu.c
...

>>
>
> Otherwise looks good:
>
> I can fix up the commit message when applying this.
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@...aro.org>

Thanks

Suzuki