[PATCH v11 0/7] KVM: PPC: Driver to manage pages of secure guest

Bharata B Rao bharata at linux.ibm.com
Tue Dec 3 20:44:24 AEDT 2019


On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 12:24:50PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 08:36:24AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > This is the next version of the patchset that adds required support
> > > in the KVM hypervisor to run secure guests on PEF-enabled POWER platforms.
> > > 
> > 
> > Here is a fix for the issue Hugh identified with the usage of ksm_madvise()
> > in this patchset. It applies on top of this patchset.
> 
> It looks correct to me, and I hope will not spoil your performance in any
> way that matters.  But I have to say, the patch would be so much clearer,
> if you just named your bool "downgraded" instead of "downgrade".

Thanks for confirming. Yes "downgraded" would have been more
appropriate, will probably change it when we do any next change in this
part of the code.

Regards,
Bharata.



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