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From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Upton <oupton@kernel.org>, Fuad Tabba <tabba@google.com>,
	 Joey Gouly <joey.gouly@arm.com>,
	Steffen Eiden <seiden@linux.ibm.com>,
	 Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	Zenghui Yu <yuzenghui@huawei.com>,
	 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	 linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,  stable@vger.kernel.org,
	grayhat@foxmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Allocate the shadow S2 MMUs individually
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 23:54:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <anJcUNlnNmP-mKWH@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86jyq6aq8g.wl-maz@kernel.org>

On Tue, Aug 04, 2026 at 03:56:47PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > The other thing is that reallocating the pointer array isn't great. It
> > adds complexity, and makes everything more fragile than it should be.
> > 
> > See the hack below that seems to work OK.
> > 

Your draft is indeed a bit simpler.

Should I send a cleaned-up version as v2?

I would allocate the table on the first call to kvm_vcpu_init_nested()
and not in kvm_init_nested(), so it cannot leak if VM creation
fails. 

There's another issue in the current code: the ptdump debugfs file
keeps the raw mmu pointer as its private data. I would add that to the
commit message.

Thanks,
Karl


  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-03 22:44 [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Allocate the shadow S2 MMUs individually Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-03 22:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Add a nested S2 MMU realloc test Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-04 14:44   ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-04 10:24 ` [PATCH 1/2] KVM: arm64: nv: Allocate the shadow S2 MMUs individually Wei-Lin Chang
2026-08-04 14:31 ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-04 14:56   ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-04 21:54     ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
2026-08-05  7:32       ` Marc Zyngier
2026-08-05 21:39         ` Karl Mehltretter

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