[PATCH kernel] KVM: PPC: Do not warn when userspace asked for too big TCE table

Michael Ellerman patch-notifications at ellerman.id.au
Sat Jul 9 20:14:31 AEST 2022


On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:02:28 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> KVM manages emulated TCE tables for guest LIOBNs by a two level table
> which maps up to 128TiB with 16MB IOMMU pages (enabled in QEMU by default)
> and MAX_ORDER=11 (the kernel's default). Note that the last level of
> the table is allocated when actual TCE is updated.
> 
> However these tables are created via ioctl() on kvmfd and the userspace
> can trigger WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order >= MAX_ORDER, gfp) in mm/page_alloc.c
> and flood dmesg.
> 
> [...]

Applied to powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm.

[1/1] KVM: PPC: Do not warn when userspace asked for too big TCE table
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/4dee21e0f2520f5032b0abce0ecae593a71bd19d

cheers


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