[PATCH v13 03/35] KVM: Use gfn instead of hva for mmu_notifier_retry
Paolo Bonzini
pbonzini at redhat.com
Mon Oct 30 09:30:54 PDT 2023
On 10/27/23 20:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> From: Chao Peng <chao.p.peng at linux.intel.com> Currently in mmu_notifier
> invalidate path, hva range is recorded and then checked against by
> mmu_notifier_retry_hva() in the page fault handling path. However, for
> the to be introduced private memory, a page fault may not have a hva
> associated, checking gfn(gpa) makes more sense. For existing hva based
> shared memory, gfn is expected to also work. The only downside is when
> aliasing multiple gfns to a single hva, the current algorithm of
> checking multiple ranges could result in a much larger range being
> rejected. Such aliasing should be uncommon, so the impact is expected
> small.
Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com>
Paolo
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