linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE

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Message-ID: <CAPcyv4jysxEu54XK2kUYnvTqUL7zf2fJvv7jWRR=P4Shy+3bOQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Nov 2019 16:01:31 -0800
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: Do not treat ZONE_DEVICE pages as being reserved

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:39 PM Sean Christopherson
<sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 03:20:11PM -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > After some more thought I'd feel more comfortable just collapsing the
> > ZONE_DEVICE case into the VM_IO/VM_PFNMAP case. I.e. with something
> > like this (untested) that just drops the reference immediately and let
> > kvm_is_reserved_pfn() do the right thing going forward.
>
> This will break the page fault flow, as it will allow the page to be
> whacked before KVM can ensure it will get proper notification from the
> mmu_notifier.  E.g. KVM would install the PFN in its secondary MMU after
> getting the invalidate notification for the PFN.

How do mmu notifiers get held off by page references and does that
machinery work with ZONE_DEVICE? Why is this not a concern for the
VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP case?