[PATCH v5 08/12] KVM: Reinstate gfn_to_pfn_cache with invalidation support

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Sat Dec 11 01:53:04 AEDT 2021


On 12/10/21 13:25, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-12-09 at 23:34 +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>> Compared to the review it's missing this hunk:
>>
>> @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ void kvm_gfn_to_pfn_cache_unmap(struct kvm *kvm, struct gfn_to_pfn_cache *gpc)
>>
>>          gpc->valid = false;
>>
>> -       old_khva = gpc->khva;
>> +       old_khva = (void *)((unsigned long)gpc->khva & ~PAGE_MASK);
>>          old_dirty = gpc->dirty;
> 
> Do you know what? I couldn't bring myself to add that a second time. I
> managed it once, but it made me sad.
> 
> Did it like this instead:
> 
> -       old_khva = gpc->khva;
> +       old_khva = gpc->khva - offset_in_page(gpc->khva);

Very nice, and it would have deserved a macro in include/linux if there 
wasn't a decent way to write it.

> I checked that for me at least, GCC is clever enough to just do the
> mask.
> 
>          old_khva = gpc->khva - offset_in_page(gpc->khva);
>   131:   48 8b 43 78             mov    0x78(%rbx),%rax
>   135:   48 25 00 f0 ff ff       and    $0xfffffffffffff000,%rax
> 
> 
> I still don't see the previous patches in kvm/next — is that an
> automatic push after testing has passed, or is the kernel.org
> infrastructure just *really* slow?

No, it's me really wanting to send out the -rc5 pull request before the 
weekend.  Just wait five more minutes.

Paolo

> I've pushed based on the currently-visible kvm/next to
> https://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/xen-evtchn
> and can resend when the tree finally surfaces.
> 



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