linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 05/26] KVM: arm64: Avoid free

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Date:   Mon, 1 Feb 2021 17:46:38 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Julien Thierry <julien.thierry.kdev@...il.com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, android-kvm@...gle.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Fuad Tabba <tabba@...gle.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        David Brazdil <dbrazdil@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 05/26] KVM: arm64: Avoid free_page() in page-table
 allocator

On Fri, Jan 08, 2021 at 12:15:03PM +0000, Quentin Perret wrote:
> Currently, the KVM page-table allocator uses a mix of put_page() and
> free_page() calls depending on the context even though page-allocation
> is always achieved using variants of __get_free_page().
> 
> Make the code consitent by using put_page() throughout, and reduce the

typo: consistent

> memory management API surface used by the page-table code. This will
> ease factoring out page-alloction from pgtable.c, which is a
> pre-requisite to creating page-tables at EL2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 10 +++++-----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

Will