[PATCH v4 00/21] KVM: arm64: Rewrite page-table code and fault handling
Will Deacon
will at kernel.org
Thu Sep 10 06:58:36 EDT 2020
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 02:06:04PM +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
> On 9/8/20 1:23 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Here's version four of the KVM page-table rework I previously posted here:
> >
> > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730153406.25136-1-will@kernel.org
> > v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200818132818.16065-1-will@kernel.org
> > v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200825093953.26493-1-will@kernel.org
> >
> > Changes since v3 include:
> >
> > * Removed some more unused code from the old implementation
> > * Renumbered KVM_PGTABLE_PROT_* to match file permissions in hex dumps
> > * Simplified kvm_granule_shift() and removed kvm_start_level()
> > * Only clear valid bit when invalidating a PTE, leaving phys addr intact
> > * Fail gracefully when attempting to allocate without a memory cache
> > * Rewrote stage2_apply_range() as a function instead of a macro
> > * Fixed fault address rounding with hugetlbfs
> > * Fixed permission fault handling when dirty logging is enabled
> > * Added comments
> > * Added reviewer tags
> >
> > Many thanks to Alex and Gavin for their comments.
> >
> > Will
> >
>
> [...]
>
> Eventually, I'm lucky finding a machine from our pool where 16KB page
> size is supported. I tried this series (v4) on this machine, everything
> looks good as we expected:
Thanks, Gavin! I'll probably spin another version this week, just collecting
the last few comments I've had.
Will
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