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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pve-server ([49.205.216.49]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5a478bee46e88-33987ccf483sm10434389eec.20.2026.09.09.23.34.33 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:34:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) To: Sean Christopherson , Marc Zyngier , Oliver Upton , Sean Christopherson , Paolo Bonzini , Tianrui Zhao , Bibo Mao , Huacai Chen , Anup Patel , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Christian Borntraeger , Janosch Frank , Claudio Imbrenda Cc: Fuad Tabba , Joey Gouly , Steffen Eiden , Suzuki K Poulose , Zenghui Yu , Atish Patra , Alexandre Ghiti , David Hildenbrand , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, kvm-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Itaru Kitayama , Nicholas Piggin Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 06/20] KVM: selftests: Extend page allocator to support naturally aligned allocations In-Reply-To: <20260902164123.2546762-7-seanjc@google.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:57:06 +0530 Message-ID: References: <20260902164123.2546762-1-seanjc@google.com> <20260902164123.2546762-7-seanjc@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvmarm@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sean Christopherson writes: > Extend the page allocator to support naturally aligned allocations, as some > flavors of PowerPC page tables require multiple guest pages per table, and > those tables need to be naturally aligned. > That's true. > Take care to align the potential base address *inside* the retry loop, i.e. > the base needs to be (re)aligned on every attempt. > > Tested-by: Itaru Kitayama > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson Thanks for sharing the changes. Looks good to me. Feel free to add: Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM)