[PULL] topic/iomem-mmap-vs-gup

Paolo Bonzini pbonzini at redhat.com
Mon May 10 11:13:31 PDT 2021


On 10/05/21 19:57, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> +Paolo
> 
> On Mon, May 10, 2021, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>
>>> yeah vfio is still broken for the case I care about. I think there's
>>> also some questions open still about whether kvm really uses
>>> mmu_notifier in all cases correctly,
>>
>> IIRC kvm doesn't either.
> 
> Yep, KVM on x86 has a non-trivial number of flows that don't properly hook into
> the mmu_notifier.  Paolo is working on fixing the problem, but I believe the
> rework won't be ready until 5.14.

Yeah, I like the way it's coming, but I'm at 20-ish patches and counting.

Paolo




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