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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2024-10-10 20:23:14 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2024-10-25 18:57:58 +0200
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parentKVM: Rename gfn_to_page_many_atomic() to kvm_prefetch_pages() (diff)
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KVM: Drop @atomic param from gfn=>pfn and hva=>pfn APIs
Drop @atomic from the myriad "to_pfn" APIs now that all callers pass "false", and remove a comment blurb about KVM running only the "GUP fast" part in atomic context. No functional change intended. Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Tested-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-ID: <20241010182427.1434605-13-seanjc@google.com>
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@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ We dirty-log for gfn1, that means gfn2 is lost in dirty-bitmap.
For direct sp, we can easily avoid it since the spte of direct sp is fixed
to gfn. For indirect sp, we disabled fast page fault for simplicity.
-A solution for indirect sp could be to pin the gfn, for example via
-gfn_to_pfn_memslot_atomic, before the cmpxchg. After the pinning:
+A solution for indirect sp could be to pin the gfn before the cmpxchg. After
+the pinning:
- We have held the refcount of pfn; that means the pfn can not be freed and
be reused for another gfn.