From: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
To: Wei-Lin Chang <weilin.chang@arm.com>
Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, 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 v2] KVM: arm64: nv: Keep the shadow S2 MMUs at fixed addresses
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 20:00:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anTJa-VDvgCE-Ax7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vhpuadbpqligv2pfol6wsxtwpdkdeorlq2k5ifurwgry5pbh5x@jdm5jqm57sp3>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 03:49:35PM +0100, Wei-Lin Chang wrote:
>
> I felt the commit message needs to be tightened a bit, so I restructured
> it slightly and removed some information I found unneeded. Here is my
> attempt, feel free to use it if you find it better or further improve it:
Hi Wei-Lin,
Thanks for the review! This is clearer, I'll tighten the commit message.
>
> > + /* Allocate the fixed-size pointer table once per VM. */
>
> This comment seems a bit redundant.
>
Agreed, I will drop it.
> > - for (int i = kvm->arch.nested_mmus_size; !ret && i < num_mmus; i++)
> > - ret = init_nested_s2_mmu(kvm, &kvm->arch.nested_mmus[i]);
> > + write_lock(&kvm->mmu_lock);
>
> Opportunity to use guard() or scoped_guard() here.
>
Good point. I seem to forget about guard. I will use it and send v3.
Thanks,
Karl
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-06 6:23 [PATCH v2] KVM: arm64: nv: Keep the shadow S2 MMUs at fixed addresses Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-06 14:49 ` Wei-Lin Chang
2026-08-06 18:00 ` Karl Mehltretter [this message]
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