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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 12:07:57 -0700
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...zon.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Li RongQing <lirongqing@...du.com>,
Yong He <zhuangel570@...il.com>,
Robert Hoo <robert.hoo.linux@...il.com>,
Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Add "never" option to allow sticky
disabling of nx_huge_pages
On Wed, Jun 14, 2023, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>
>
> On 2023-06-13 19:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
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> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:58:59 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Add a "never" option to the nx_huge_pages module param to allow userspace
> > > to do a one-way hard disabling of the mitigation, and don't create the
> > > per-VM recovery threads when the mitigation is hard disabled. Letting
> > > userspace pinky swear that userspace doesn't want to enable NX mitigation
> > > (without reloading KVM) allows certain use cases to avoid the latency
> > > problems associated with spawning a kthread for each VM.
> > >
> > > [...]
> >
> > Applied to kvm-x86 mmu. I kept the default as "auto" for now, as that can go on
> > top and I don't want to introduce that change this late in the cycle. If no one
> > beats me to the punch (hint, hint ;-) ), I'll post a patch to make "never" the
> > default for unaffected hosts so that we can discuss/consider that change for 6.6.
>
> Thanks Sean, I agree with the plan. I could give a try on the patch if you'd like.
Yes please, thanks!
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