[PATCH RFC v1 05/12] vfio/type1: Prepare is_invalid_reserved_pfn() for PG_reserved changes

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Wed Oct 23 04:12:32 AEDT 2019


Right now, ZONE_DEVICE memory is always set PG_reserved. We want to
change that.

KVM has this weird use case that you can map anything from /dev/mem
into the guest. pfn_valid() is not a reliable check whether the memmap
was initialized and can be touched. pfn_to_online_page() makes sure
that we have an initialized memmap. Note that ZONE_DEVICE memory is
never online (IOW, managed by the buddy).

Switching to pfn_to_online_page() keeps the existing behavior for
PFNs without a memmap and for ZONE_DEVICE memory. They are treated as
reserved and the page is not touched (e.g., to set it dirty or accessed).

Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cohuck at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
index 2ada8e6cdb88..f8ce8c408ba8 100644
--- a/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
+++ b/drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c
@@ -299,9 +299,15 @@ static int vfio_lock_acct(struct vfio_dma *dma, long npage, bool async)
  */
 static bool is_invalid_reserved_pfn(unsigned long pfn)
 {
-	if (pfn_valid(pfn))
-		return PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+	struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
 
+	/*
+	 * We treat any pages that are not online (not managed by the buddy)
+	 * as reserved - this includes ZONE_DEVICE pages and pages without
+	 * a memmap (e.g., mapped via /dev/mem).
+	 */
+	if (page)
+		return PageReserved(page);
 	return true;
 }
 
-- 
2.21.0



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