[PATCH v13 00/85] KVM: Stop grabbing references to PFNMAP'd pages

Sean Christopherson seanjc at google.com
Mon Oct 21 17:25:25 PDT 2024


On Thu, Oct 17, 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 8:24 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc at google.com> wrote:
> > v13:
> >  - Rebased onto v6.12-rc2
> >  - Collect reviews. [Alex and others]
> >  - Fix a transient bug in arm64 and RISC-V where KVM would leak a page
> >    refcount. [Oliver]
> >  - Fix a dangling comment. [Alex]
> >  - Drop kvm_lookup_pfn(), as the x86 that "needed" it was stupid and is (was?)
> >    eliminated in v6.12.
> >  - Drop check_user_page_hwpoison(). [Paolo]
> >  - Drop the arm64 MTE fixes that went into 6.12.
> >  - Slightly redo the guest_memfd interaction to account for 6.12 changes.
> 
> Here is my own summary of the changes:

Yep, looks right to me.

> patches removed from v12:
> 01/02 - already upstream
> 09 - moved to separate A/D series [1]
> 34 - not needed due to new patch 36
> 35 - gone after 620525739521376a65a690df899e1596d56791f8
> 
> patches added or substantially changed in v13:
> 05/06/07 - new, suggested by Yan Zhao
> 08 - code was folded from mmu_spte_age into kvm_rmap_age_gfn_range
> 14 - new, suggested by me in reply to 84/84 (yuck)
> 15 - new, suggested by me in reply to 84/84
> 19 - somewhat rewritten for new follow_pfnmap API
> 27 - smaller changes due to new follow_pfnmap API
> 36 - rewritten, suggested by me
> 45 - new, cleanup
> 46 - much simplified due to new patch 45
> 
> Looks good to me, thanks and congratulations!! Should we merge it in
> kvm/next asap?

That has my vote, though I'm obvious extremely biased :-)



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