[RFC PATCH v1 17/57] kvm: Remove PAGE_SIZE compile-time constant assumption

Ryan Roberts ryan.roberts at arm.com
Tue Oct 15 03:57:21 PDT 2024


On 14/10/2024 22:37, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Nit, "KVM:" for the scope.

Thanks, will fix.

> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> To prepare for supporting boot-time page size selection, refactor code
>> to remove assumptions about PAGE_SIZE being compile-time constant. Code
>> intended to be equivalent when compile-time page size is active.
>>
>> Modify BUILD_BUG_ON() to compare with page size limit.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> ***NOTE***
>> Any confused maintainers may want to read the cover note here for context:
>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241014105514.3206191-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/
> 
> The patch should still stand on its own.  Most people can probably suss out what
> PAGE_SIZE_MIN is, but at the same time, it's quite easy to provide a more verbose
> changelog that's tailored to the actual patch.  E.g.
> 
>   To prepare for supporting boot-time page size selection, refactor KVM's
>   check on the size of the kvm_run structure to assert that the size is less
>   than the smallest possible page size, i.e. that kvm_run won't overflow its
>   page regardless of what page size is chosen at boot time.
> 
> With something like the above,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com>

Thanks! I'll update this for the next version.




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