linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: s390: vsie: vsie page handling fixes + rework

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Message-ID: <6e42d4d1-2673-4a89-aebf-5b15ac9bde2f@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:37:25 +0100
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@...ux.ibm.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
 Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Janosch Frank <frankja@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@...ux.ibm.com>, Heiko Carstens
 <hca@...ux.ibm.com>, Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
 Sven Schnelle <svens@...ux.ibm.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@...hat.com>,
 "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: s390: vsie: vsie page handling fixes + rework

On 14.01.25 10:18, Christoph Schlameuss wrote:
> On Tue Jan 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM CET, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> We want to get rid of page->index, so let's make vsie code stop using it
>> for the vsie page.
>>
>> While at it, also remove the usage of page refcount, so we can stop messing
>> with "struct page" completely.
>>
>> ... of course, looking at this code after quite some years, I found some
>> corner cases that should be fixed.
>>
>> Briefly sanity tested with kvm-unit-tests running inside a KVM VM, and
>> nothing blew up.
> 
> Reviewed and tested the whole series.

Thanks a bunch!

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb