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* [PATCH v5 0/5] Introduce movable pages for Hyper-V guests
@ 2025-10-16  0:26 Stanislav Kinsburskii
  2025-10-16  0:26 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] Drivers: hv: Refactor and rename memory region handling functions Stanislav Kinsburskii
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Stanislav Kinsburskii @ 2025-10-16  0:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kys, haiyangz, wei.liu, decui; +Cc: linux-hyperv, linux-kernel

From the start, the root-partition driver allocates, pins, and maps all
guest memory into the hypervisor at guest creation. This is simple: Linux
cannot move the pages, so the guest’s view in Linux and in Microsoft
Hypervisor never diverges.

However, this approach has major drawbacks:
 - NUMA: affinity can’t be changed at runtime, so you can’t migrate guest memory closer to the CPUs running it → performance hit.
 - Memory management: unused guest memory can’t be swapped out, compacted, or merged.
 - Provisioning time: upfront allocation/pinning slows guest create/destroy.
 - Overcommit: no memory overcommit on hosts with pinned-guest memory.

This series adds movable memory pages for Hyper-V child partitions. Guest
pages are no longer allocated upfront; they’re allocated and mapped into
the hypervisor on demand (i.e., when the guest touches a GFN that isn’t yet
backed by a host PFN).
When a page is moved, Linux no longer holds it and it is unmapped from the hypervisor.
As a result, Hyper-V guests behave like regular Linux processes, enabling standard Linux memory features to apply to guests.

Exceptions (still pinned):
 1. Encrypted guests (explicit).
 2. Guests with passthrough devices (implicitly pinned by the VFIO framework).

v5:
 - Fix a bug in MMU notifier handling where an uninitialized 'ret' variable
   could cause the warning about failed page invalidation to be skipped.
 - Improve comment grammar regarding skipping the unmapping of non-mapped pages.

v4:
 - Fix a bug in batch unmapping can skip mapped pages when selecting a new
   batch due to wrong offset calculation.
 - Fix an error message in case of failed memory region pinning.

v3:
 - Region is invalidated even if the mm has no users.
 - Page remapping logic is updated to support 2M-unaligned remappings for
   regions that are PMD-aligned, which can occur during both faults and
   invalidations.

v2:
 - Split unmap batching into a separate patch.
 - Fixed commit messages from v1 review.
 - Renamed a few functions for clarity.

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Stanislav Kinsburskii (5):
      Drivers: hv: Refactor and rename memory region handling functions
      Drivers: hv: Centralize guest memory region destruction
      Drivers: hv: Batch GPA unmap operations to improve large region performance
      Drivers: hv: Ensure large page GPA mapping is PMD-aligned
      Drivers: hv: Add support for movable memory regions


 drivers/hv/Kconfig             |    1 
 drivers/hv/mshv_root.h         |   10 +
 drivers/hv/mshv_root_hv_call.c |    2 
 drivers/hv/mshv_root_main.c    |  495 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 4 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)


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2025-10-16  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] Drivers: hv: Ensure large page GPA mapping is PMD-aligned Stanislav Kinsburskii
2025-10-16  0:27 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] Drivers: hv: Add support for movable memory regions Stanislav Kinsburskii
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