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From: "Edgecombe, Rick P" <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com>
To: "kas@kernel.org" <kas@kernel.org>, "Zhao, Yan Y" <yan.y.zhao@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/virt/tdx: Use PFN directly for mapping guest private memory
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:27:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3acc801e4e939a0a4794ba777e72f26b27af0d2.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <abvxiuJfK2eM_1UX@thinkstation>

On Thu, 2026-03-19 at 12:57 +0000, Kiryl Shutsemau wrote:
> > Though tdh_mem_page_aug() is an API, it is currently only exported to KVM
> > and
> > uses type kvm_pfn_t. So, is it still acceptable to assume flush size to be
> > PAGE_SIZE? Honoring level will soon be introduced by huge page patches.
> 
> It caught my eye because previously size to flush was passed down to
> tdx_clflush_page() in the struct page (although never used there).
> With switching to pfn, we give up this information and it has to be
> passed separately. It would be easy to miss that in huge page patches,
> if we don't pass down level here.
> 
> > 
> > If you think it needs to be fixed before huge page series, what about fixing
> > it
> > in a separate cleanup patch? IMO, it would be better placed after Sean's
> > cleanup
> > patch [1], so we can use page_level_size() instead of inventing the wheel.
> 
> I am okay with a separate patch.

I feel like we argued about this before. But it would be more correct to just
drop level and make it 4k only until huge pages? Otherwise we are tweaking dead
behavior.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-19 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-19  0:56 [PATCH 0/2] struct page to PFN conversion for TDX guest private memory Yan Zhao
2026-03-19  0:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] x86/virt/tdx: Use PFN directly for mapping " Yan Zhao
2026-03-19 10:39   ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-03-19 11:59     ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-19 12:14       ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-19 12:57       ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-03-19 17:27         ` Edgecombe, Rick P [this message]
2026-03-20 12:59           ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-03-20 17:31             ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-20 17:38               ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-20 17:48                 ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-19 18:05   ` Dave Hansen
2026-03-25  9:10     ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-25 16:57       ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-27  7:03         ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-31 19:13           ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-02 20:47     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-02 21:09       ` Dave Hansen
2026-04-02 22:11         ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-02 23:23   ` Ackerley Tng
2026-04-02 23:35     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-02 23:36     ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-04-02 23:46       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-02 23:53         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-19  0:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] x86/virt/tdx: Use PFN directly for unmapping " Yan Zhao
2026-03-19  3:20   ` Xiaoyao Li
2026-03-19  6:45     ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-19  8:56       ` Xiaoyao Li
2026-03-19  8:56         ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-04  6:39           ` Paolo Bonzini
2026-04-07  0:44             ` Yan Zhao
2026-04-09  6:54               ` Yan Zhao
2026-03-19 18:44         ` Edgecombe, Rick P
2026-03-19 10:48   ` Kiryl Shutsemau
2026-04-09  7:42     ` Yan Zhao

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