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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, david@kernel.org, seiden@linux.ibm.com,
	nrb@linux.ibm.com, schlameuss@linux.ibm.com, gra@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: s390: Properly reset zero bit in PGSTE
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f114ba1-72f6-4ffb-b179-01b8baaaec4c@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260512175251.300882-6-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

Am 12.05.26 um 19:52 schrieb Claudio Imbrenda:
> When calling _gmap_ptep_xchg(), always clear the pgste.zero bit. This
> prevents the page from being accidentally discarded when getting
> unmapped.

Ideally have some example in the patch description, that makes review easier.> 
> Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

Was this broken before the rework as well? Do we need a stable backport into 6.19
and older?

> ---
>   arch/s390/kvm/gmap.h | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.h b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.hcd R
> index e490f2995a26..4de9ed8d58ba 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.h
> +++ b/arch/s390/kvm/gmap.h
> @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static inline union pgste _gmap_ptep_xchg(struct gmap *gmap, union pte *ptep, un
>   	}
>   	if (!ptep->s.d && newpte.s.d && !newpte.s.s)
>   		SetPageDirty(pfn_to_page(newpte.h.pfra));
> +	pgste.zero = 0;
>   	return __dat_ptep_xchg(ptep, pgste, newpte, gfn, gmap->asce, uses_skeys(gmap));
>   }
>   


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-05-18 11:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-12 17:52 [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: s390: some vSIE and UCONTROL fixes Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix memory leak when unshadowing Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-13  7:50   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: s390: Fix leaking kvm_s390_mmu_cache in case of errors Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-13  7:56   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix unshadowing logic Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-18 11:28   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-19 11:40     ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix redundant rmap entries Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-18 11:54   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: s390: Properly reset zero bit in PGSTE Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-15 11:51   ` Steffen Eiden
2026-05-18 11:44   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2026-05-19 11:38     ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-19 11:57       ` Christian Borntraeger

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