Re: [PATCH v2 0/14] hv: vmbus: make rings and host-visible buffers survive buddy fragmentation
From: Easwar Hariharan
Date: Thu Oct 08 2026 - 12:59:35 EST
On 10/7/2026 12:07, Emerson Busson wrote:
> This series moves VMBus ring backing to the chunk allocator and keeps the
> allocation, GPADL ownership, and mapping references together. It preserves
> the exported four-argument interfaces while allowing the private allocation
> paths to carry ownership and sharing policy.
>
> A review of the original vzalloc fallback noted that CCA and TDX guests
> without a paravisor need direct-map page transitions. This revision uses
> contiguous chunks for buffers that must be host-shared, transitions each
> page through page_address(), and combines the chunks with vmap(). Ordinary
> guest-private buffers retain vzalloc-style allocation.
>
Can you provide a link to the v1 of this changeset and this "original vzalloc
fallback" review? And a changelog and motivation for this series?
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Thanks,
Easwar (he/him)