Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] KVM: x86/mmu: simplify argument to kvm page fault handler

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/07/21 19:24, David Matlack wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 10:17 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 29/07/21 18:48, David Matlack wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 3:05 PM Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for feedback. Let me respin it.
> > >
> > > Hi Isaku,
> > >
> > > I'm working on a series to plumb the memslot backing the faulting gfn
> > > through the page fault handling stack to avoid redundant lookups. This
> > > would be much cleaner to implement on top of your struct
> > > kvm_page_fault series than the existing code.
> > >
> > > Are you still planning to send another version of this series? Or if
> > > you have decided to drop it or go in a different direction?
> >
> > I can work on this and post updated patches next week.
>
> Sounds good. For the record I'm also looking at adding an per-vCPU LRU
> slot, which *may* obviate the need to pass around the slot. (Isaku's
> series is still a nice cleanup regardless.)

Backport done, but not tested very well yet (and it's scary :)).

Paolo