linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm64: Minor page fault handler improvement

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Date:   Wed,  7 Apr 2021 14:46:38 +0100
From:   Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To:     kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, Gavin Shan <gshan@...hat.com>
Cc:     shan.gavin@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, will@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: arm64: Minor page fault handler improvement

On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 12:11:23 +0800, Gavin Shan wrote:
> The series includes several minior improvements to stage-2 page fault
> handler: PATCH[1/2] are cleaning up the code. PATCH[3] don't retrieve
> the memory slot again in the page fault handler to save a bit CPU cycles.
> 
> Changelog
> =========
> v2:
>    * Rebased to 5.12.rc3 and include r-bs from Keqian  (Gavin)
>    * Drop patch to fix IPA limit boundary issue        (Keqian)
>    * Comments on why we use __gfn_to_pfn_memslot()     (Keqian)
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-arm64/memslot-fixes, thanks!

[1/3] KVM: arm64: Hide kvm_mmu_wp_memory_region()
      commit: eab62148478d339a37c7a6b37d34182ccf5056ad
[2/3] KVM: arm64: Use find_vma_intersection()
      commit: c728fd4ce75e9c342ea96facc5a2fe5ddb976a67
[3/3] KVM: arm64: Don't retrieve memory slot again in page fault handler
      commit: 10ba2d17d2972926c60e01dace6d7a3f8d968c4f

Cheers,

	M.
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