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From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Marc Orr <marcorr@google.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, jmattson@google.com, rientjes@google.com,
	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	rkrcmar@redhat.com, willy@infradead.org,
	sean.j.christopherson@intel.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
	kernellwp@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [kvm PATCH v5 3/4] kvm: vmx: refactor vmx_msrs struct for vmalloc
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018 07:12:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea8abaf5-8c8b-1484-c6d7-e5d110e45f48@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181031132634.50440-4-marcorr@google.com>

On 10/31/18 6:26 AM, Marc Orr wrote:
> +/*
> + * To prevent vmx_msr_entry array from crossing a page boundary, require:
> + * sizeof(*vmx_msrs.vmx_msr_entry.val) to be a power of two. This is guaranteed
> + * through compile-time asserts that:
> + *   - NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS * sizeof(struct vmx_msr_entry) is a power of two
> + *   - NR_AUTOLOAD_MSRS * sizeof(struct vmx_msr_entry) <= PAGE_SIZE
> + *   - The allocation of vmx_msrs.vmx_msr_entry.val is aligned to its size.
> + */

Why do we need to prevent them from crossing a page boundary?

  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-31 14:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-31 13:26 [kvm PATCH v5 0/4] shrink vcpu_vmx down to order 2 Marc Orr
2018-10-31 13:26 ` [kvm PATCH v5 1/4] kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user Marc Orr
2018-10-31 13:26 ` [kvm PATCH v5 2/4] kvm: x86: Dynamically allocate guest_fpu Marc Orr
2018-10-31 14:11   ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-31 21:13     ` Marc Orr
2018-10-31 21:21       ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-31 21:24         ` Marc Orr
2018-10-31 21:30           ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-31 21:39             ` Marc Orr
2018-10-31 21:44               ` Dave Hansen
2018-10-31 13:26 ` [kvm PATCH v5 3/4] kvm: vmx: refactor vmx_msrs struct for vmalloc Marc Orr
2018-10-31 14:12   ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2018-10-31 14:15     ` Sean Christopherson
2018-10-31 14:19       ` Marc Orr
2018-10-31 13:26 ` [kvm PATCH v5 4/4] kvm: vmx: use vmalloc() to allocate vcpus Marc Orr

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