Re: [PATCH 0/2] iommu: debug-pagealloc: Remove pfn_valid() usage

David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-19T15:16:42Z

On 1/19/26 16:09, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2026 at 2:27 PM David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
> <david@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/19/26 15:22, Mostafa Saleh wrote:
>>> This is a small fix for the new config IOMMU_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC based
>>> on the discussion:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/CAFgf54pBAUm3ao-UJksiuGKtvv4wzRyFq_uKwLe0H1ettO4DLQ@mail.gmail.com/
>>>
>>> Where it was concluded that pfn_valid() is not enough to validate
>>> physical addresses before access to page_ext.
>>>
>>> The first patch introduces a new function in page_ext that takes a
>>> physical address as an argument, and the second patch uses it instead
>>> of calling pfn_valid() and phys_to_page()
>>>
>>> Benchmarks with the new implementation can be found in:
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260114164322.787125-1-smostafa@google.com/
>>>
>>> This series applies to iommu/core tree.
>>
>> This is part of v7 [1], right? Can't we just apply v7 instead or are the
>> commit IDs already stable?
>>
>
> It should be stable according to Will:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iommu/20260114164322.787125-1-smostafa@google.com/T/#m59d0b455e3f2160cb6f9980a0ae65bc481c53898

Shame, probably applied a bit too fast ...

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Cheers

David