[PATCH v2] powernv: kvm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 21 20:42:14 EST 2014
Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans at gmail.com> writes:
> 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>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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.
> ---
> v2:
> It should be the reply to "[PATCH 2/4] powernv: kvm: make _PAGE_NUMA take effect"
> And I imporve the changelog according to Aneesh's suggestion.
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
> index 9c51544..af8602d 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_hv_rm_mmu.c
> @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ long kvmppc_do_h_enter(struct kvm *kvm, unsigned long flags,
> /* Look up the Linux PTE for the backing page */
> pte_size = psize;
> pte = lookup_linux_pte(pgdir, hva, writing, &pte_size);
> - if (pte_present(pte)) {
> + if (pte_present(pte) && !pte_numa(pte)) {
> if (writing && !pte_write(pte))
> /* make the actual HPTE be read-only */
> ptel = hpte_make_readonly(ptel);
> --
> 1.8.1.4
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