linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files

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Date:   Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:08:59 +0200
From:   Liran Alon <liran.alon@...cle.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com>
Cc:     Barret Rhoden <brho@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jason.zeng@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files



> On 13 Dec 2019, at 19:50, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:31:55PM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13 Dec 2019, at 19:19, Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@...el.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Then allowed_hugepage_adjust() would look something like:
>>> 
>>> static void allowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn,
>>> 				    kvm_pfn_t *pfnp, int *levelp, int max_level)
>>> {
>>> 	kvm_pfn_t pfn = *pfnp;
>>> 	int level = *levelp;	
>>> 	unsigned long mask;
>>> 
>>> 	if (is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) || !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) ||
>>> 	    level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
>>> 		return;
>>> 
>>> 	/*
>>> 	 * mmu_notifier_retry() was successful and mmu_lock is held, so
>>> 	 * the pmd/pud can't be split from under us.
>>> 	 */
>>> 	level = host_pfn_mapping_level(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn);
>>> 
>>> 	*levelp = level = min(level, max_level);
>>> 	mask = KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(level) - 1;
>>> 	VM_BUG_ON((gfn & mask) != (pfn & mask));
>>> 	*pfnp = pfn & ~mask;
>> 
>> Why don’t you still need to kvm_release_pfn_clean() for original pfn and
>> kvm_get_pfn() for new huge-page start pfn?
> 
> That code is gone in kvm/queue.  thp_adjust() is now called from
> __direct_map() and FNAME(fetch), and so its pfn adjustment doesn't bleed
> back to the page fault handlers.  The only reason the put/get pfn code
> existed was because the page fault handlers called kvm_release_pfn_clean()
> on the pfn, i.e. they would have put the wrong pfn.

Ack. Thanks for the explaining this.