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From: Peter Fang <peter.fang@intel.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
	"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	"Griffoul, Fred" <fgriffo@amazon.com>,
	"Yosry Ahmed" <yosry@kernel.org>,
	Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
	"Michael Ellerman" <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>, <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Fix and clean up kvm_vcpu_map[_readonly]() usages
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:05:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260427080554.GD1733452@pedri> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2fad21764d2561469151f5dd5d35833ae8f76e6.camel@infradead.org>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2026 at 11:27:03AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Fred is already removing all the usage of kvm_vcpu_map() in nested VMX¹
> and nested SVM probably wants the same treatment. And the PowerPC one
> looks like it could just as easily operate on the userspace address? 
> 
> Could we just kill kvm_vcpu_map() completely?

Thanks David!

I think I'd need at least input from the maintainers on this but just by
code inspection, the kvm_vcpu_map() usage in sev.c seems a bit tricky.
Unmapping doesn't happen until right before switching to the guest, so
this might fall into the "keep the mapping around for a longer time"
category [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20211115165030.7422-8-dwmw2@infradead.org/

> 
> 
> 
> ¹ https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20260102142429.896101-1-griffoul@gmail.com/



      reply	other threads:[~2026-04-27  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-08  0:11 [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Fix and clean up kvm_vcpu_map[_readonly]() usages Peter Fang
2026-04-08  0:11 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: Fix kvm_vcpu_map[_readonly]() function prototypes Peter Fang
2026-04-21 23:05   ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-08  0:11 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] KVM: Move page mapping/unmapping APIs in kvm_host.h Peter Fang
2026-04-21 23:06   ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-08  0:11 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: Take gpa_t in kvm_vcpu_map[_readonly]() Peter Fang
2026-04-21 23:08   ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-21 23:19     ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-21 23:25       ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-21 23:29       ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-21 23:41         ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-22  0:27           ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-22 20:19             ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-22 20:34               ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-22 21:44                 ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-22 22:17                   ` Sean Christopherson
2026-04-22 22:19                     ` Yosry Ahmed
2026-04-23  7:49               ` Peter Fang
2026-04-24  8:25   ` Gautam Menghani
2026-04-25  4:25     ` Peter Fang
2026-04-24 10:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] KVM: Fix and clean up kvm_vcpu_map[_readonly]() usages David Woodhouse
2026-04-27  8:05   ` Peter Fang [this message]

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