linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio

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Message-ID: <c4e1c527-a372-bd6a-a101-5a8e9026e7c1@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Jul 2018 22:11:30 +0800
From:   "Zhang,Yi" <yi.z.zhang@...ux.intel.com>
To:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, pbonzini@...hat.com,
        dan.j.williams@...el.com, jack@...e.cz, hch@....de,
        yu.c.zhang@...el.com, dave.jiang@...el.com
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, rkrcmar@...hat.com, yi.z.zhang@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 0/4] Fix kvm misconceives NVDIMM pages as reserved mmio

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(-)
>