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From: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: MMU: fix huge page adapted on non-PAE host
Date: Mon, 28 May 2012 19:39:26 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FC363EE.6060204@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC35A15.6080000@redhat.com>

On 05/28/2012 06:57 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 05/28/2012 09:10 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> The huge page size is 4M on non-PAE host, but 2M page size is used in
>> transparent_hugepage_adjust(), so the page we get after adjust the
>> mapping level is not the head page, the BUG_ON() will be triggered
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> index 72102e0..be3cea4 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
>> @@ -2595,8 +2595,7 @@ static void transparent_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>>  			*gfnp = gfn;
>>  			kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
>>  			pfn &= ~mask;
>> -			if (!get_page_unless_zero(pfn_to_page(pfn)))
>> -				BUG();
>> +			kvm_get_pfn(pfn);
>>  			*pfnp = pfn;
>>  		}
>>  	}
> 
> Shouldn't we adjust mask instead?
> 


Adjusting mask to map the whole 4M huge page to KVM guest?
But it seams 4M page size is not supported on VMX/SVM.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-28 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-28  6:10 [PATCH] KVM: MMU: fix huge page adapted on non-PAE host Xiao Guangrong
2012-05-28 10:57 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 11:39   ` Xiao Guangrong [this message]
2012-05-28 12:24     ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 12:56       ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-05-28 13:14         ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 13:41           ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-05-28 13:53             ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 14:05               ` Xiao Guangrong
2012-05-28 14:20                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 14:42                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-28 14:32               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-28 14:40                 ` Avi Kivity
2012-05-28 14:44                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-29 14:23                     ` Avi Kivity

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