linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Share common code in user_mem

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Message-ID: <9470f63a-6e8c-aeb6-7648-ad5fc7f24904@arm.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:59:38 +0100
From:   Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        christoffer.dall@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        will.deacon@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] KVM: arm/arm64: Share common code in
 user_mem_abort()

On 09/07/18 15:41, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> The code for operations such as marking the pfn as dirty, and
> dcache/icache maintenance during stage 2 fault handling is duplicated
> between normal pages and PMD hugepages.
> 
> Instead of creating another copy of the operations when we introduce
> PUD hugepages, let's share them across the different pagesizes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> ---
>   virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>   1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>