Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] KVM: s390: vsie: vsie page handling fixes + rework

From: Christoph Schlameuss
Date: Tue Jan 14 2025 - 04:19:00 EST


On Tue Jan 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM CET, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> We want to get rid of page->index, so let's make vsie code stop using it
> for the vsie page.
>
> While at it, also remove the usage of page refcount, so we can stop messing
> with "struct page" completely.
>
> ... of course, looking at this code after quite some years, I found some
> corner cases that should be fixed.
>
> Briefly sanity tested with kvm-unit-tests running inside a KVM VM, and
> nothing blew up.

Reviewed and tested the whole series.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Christoph Schlameuss <schlameuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> David Hildenbrand (4):
> KVM: s390: vsie: fix some corner-cases when grabbing vsie pages
> KVM: s390: vsie: stop using page->index
> KVM: s390: vsie: stop messing with page refcount
> KVM: s390: vsie: stop using "struct page" for vsie page
>
> arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 4 +-
> arch/s390/kvm/vsie.c | 104 ++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
>
> base-commit: fbfd64d25c7af3b8695201ebc85efe90be28c5a3