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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2021 11:31:20 +0100
From: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
To: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
Cc: will@...nel.org, james.morse@....com, alexandru.elisei@....com,
catalin.marinas@....com, suzuki.poulose@....com,
linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
kernel-team@...roid.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/7] KVM: arm64: Unify MMIO and mem host stage-2 pools
On 2021-06-02 10:43, Quentin Perret wrote:
> We currently maintain two separate memory pools for the host stage-2,
> one for pages used in the page-table when mapping memory regions, and
> the other to map MMIO regions. The former is large enough to map all of
> memory with page granularity and the latter can cover an arbitrary
> portion of IPA space, but allows to 'recycle' pages.
>
> However, this split makes accounting difficult to manage as pages at
> intermediate levels of the page-table may be used to map both memory
> and
> MMIO regions. Simplify the scheme by merging both pools into one. This
> means we can now hit the -ENOMEM case in the memory abort path, but
> we're still guaranteed forward-progress in the worst case by unmapping
> MMIO regions. On the plus side this also means we can usually map a lot
> more MMIO space at once if memory ranges happen to be mapped with block
> mappings.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@...gle.com>
This patch fails to apply on top of -rc4. Did you use some more exotic
base or, as I suspect, a development tree?
Please check and respin the series if necessary.
M.
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