Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 3 authors, 2021-04-29

Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Skip CMOs when updating a PTE pointing to non-memory

From: Jean-Philippe Brucker <hidden>
Date: 2021-04-27 15:25:36
Also in: kvm, kvmarm

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 03:52:46PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
The comment [1] suggested that the panic is triggered during page aging.
I think only with an out-of-tree patch applied
https://jpbrucker.net/git/linux/commit/?h=sva/2021-03-01&id=d32d8baaf293aaefef8a1c9b8a4508ab2ec46c61
which probably is not going upstream.

Thanks,
Jean
vfio_pci_mmap() sets the VM_PFNMAP for the VMA and I see in the Documentation that
pages with VM_PFNMAP are added to the unevictable LRU list, doesn't that mean it's
not subject the page aging? I feel like there's something I'm missing.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/BY5PR12MB37642B9AC7E5D907F5A664F6B3459@BY5PR12MB3764.namprd12.prod.outlook.com/ (local)

Thanks,

Alex
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