[PATCH v2] powernv: kvm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect

[Liu ping fan]

Hi Alex, could you help to pick up this patch? since  v3.14 kernel can
enable numa fault for powerpc.

Thx,
Fan

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf at suse.de> wrote:
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> On 21.01.2014, at 10:42, Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
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>> Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans at gmail.com> writes:
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>>> To make sure that on host, the pages marked with _PAGE_NUMA result in a fault
>>> when guest access them, we should force the checking when guest uses hypercall
>>> to setup hpte.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <pingfank at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>> When we mark pte with _PAGE_NUMA we already call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and
>> mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end, which will mark existing guest hpte
>> entry as HPTE_V_ABSENT. Now we need to do that when we are inserting new
>> guest hpte entries. This patch does that.
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> So what happens next? We insert a page into the HTAB without HPTE_V_VALID set, so the guest will fail to use it. If the guest does an H_READ on it it will suddenly turn to V_VALID though?
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> I might need a crash course in the use of HPTE_V_ABSENT.
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> Alex
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