[External] : [PATCH] RISC-V: KVM: Transparent huge page support
ALOK TIWARI
alok.a.tiwari at oracle.com
Sun Sep 28 12:31:51 PDT 2025
On 9/28/2025 1:14 PM, liu.xuemei1 at zte.com.cn wrote:
> +static bool gstage_supports_huge_mapping(struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot, unsigned long hva)
> +{
> + gpa_t gpa_start;
> + hva_t uaddr_start, uaddr_end;
> + size_t size;
> +
> + size = memslot->npages * PAGE_SIZE;
> + uaddr_start = memslot->userspace_addr;
> + uaddr_end = uaddr_start + size;
> +
> + gpa_start = memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SIZE;
looks wrong why << PAGE_SIZE ? typo
> +
> + /*
> + * Pages belonging to memslots that don't have the same alignment
> + * within a PMD for userspace and GPA cannot be mapped with g-stage
> + * PMD entries, because we'll end up mapping the wrong pages.
> + *
> + * Consider a layout like the following:
> + *
> + * memslot->userspace_addr:
> + * +-----+--------------------+--------------------+---+
> + *|abcde|fgh vs-stage block | vs-stage block tv|xyz|
> + * +-----+--------------------+--------------------+---+
> + *
> + * memslot->base_gfn << PAGE_SHIFT:
> + * +---+--------------------+--------------------+-----+
> + *|abc|def g-stage block | g-stage block |tvxyz|
> + * +---+--------------------+--------------------+-----+
> + *
> + * If we create those g-stage blocks, we'll end up with this incorrect
> + * mapping:
> + * d -> f
> + * e -> g
> + * f -> h
> + */
> + if ((gpa_start & (PMD_SIZE - 1)) != (uaddr_start & (PMD_SIZE - 1)))
> + return false;
> +
> + /*
> + * Next, let's make sure we're not trying to map anything not covered
> + * by the memslot. This means we have to prohibit block size mappings
> + * for the beginning and end of a non-block aligned and non-block sized
> + * memory slot (illustrated by the head and tail parts of the
> + * userspace view above containing pages 'abcde' and 'xyz',
> + * respectively).
> + *
> + * Note that it doesn't matter if we do the check using the
> + * userspace_addr or the base_gfn, as both are equally aligned (per
> + * the check above) and equally sized.
> + */
> + return (hva >= ALIGN(uaddr_start, PMD_SIZE)) && (hva < ALIGN_DOWN(uaddr_end, PMD_SIZE));
> +}
> +
Thanks,
Alok
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