Re: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: MMU: release noslot pfn on the fail path properly

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Sep 10 2012 - 04:22:41 EST


On 09/07/2012 09:13 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> We can not directly call kvm_release_pfn_clean to release the pfn
> since we can meet noslot pfn which is used to cache mmio info into
> spte
>
> Introduce mmu_release_pfn_clean to do this kind of thing
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> arch/x86/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index 399c177..3c10bca 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -2432,6 +2432,16 @@ done:
> return ret;
> }
>
> +/*
> + * The primary user is page fault path which call it to properly
> + * release noslot_pfn.
> + */
> +static void mmu_release_pfn_clean(pfn_t pfn)
> +{
> + if (!is_error_pfn(pfn))
> + kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> +}
> +

Too many APIs, each slightly different. How do I know which one to call?

Please change kvm_release_pfn_*() instead, calling some arch hook (or
even #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_HAS_FAST_MMIO) to check for the special case.




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