Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] KVM selftests for s390x

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 08:59:46 EST




On 24.05.19 14:36, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 24.05.19 14:29, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 24.05.19 14:17, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 24.05.19 13:11, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>>>> I do get
>>>>
>>>> [10400.440298] kvm-s390: failed to commit memory region
>>>> [10400.508723] kvm-s390: failed to commit memory region
>>>>
>>>> when running the tests. Will have a look.
>>>
>>> It comes from kvm_vm_free. This calls KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION with size 0,
>>> which the s390 code does not like.
>>>
>>
>> The doc says about KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION:
>>
>> This ioctl allows the user to create or modify a guest physical memory
>> slot. When changing an existing slot, it may be moved in the guest
>> physical memory space, or its flags may be modified. --> It may not be
>> resized. <----
>
> Size 0 is deleting, not resizing AFAIK.

Right this seems to translate to KVM_MR_DELETE, which the s390 code does not handle (we
will simply deliver a page fault as we share the last page table level).
I will have a look at implementing KVM_MR_DELETE and KVM_MR_MOVE. In fact, we should
have a testcase for that as well.