[PATCH v10 3/8] KVM: PPC: Shared pages support for secure guests

Bharata B Rao bharata at linux.ibm.com
Wed Nov 6 19:29:45 AEDT 2019


On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:52:39PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > However, since kvmppc_gfn_is_uvmem_pfn() returned true, doesn't that
> > mean that pfn here should be a device pfn, and in fact should be the
> > same as uvmem_pfn (possibly with some extra bit(s) set)?
> 
> If secure page is being converted to share, pfn will be uvmem_pfn (device pfn).

Also, kvmppc_gfn_is_uvmem_pfn() needn't always return true. It returns
true only for secure pages, while this routine handles sharing of both
secure and normal pages.

Regards,
Bharata.



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