[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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