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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, glin@suse.de,
	agraf@suse.de, brogers@suse.de, afaerber@suse.de,
	lnussel@suse.de, edk2-devel@lists.sf.net, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:28:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525C0DB6.2060009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130901091744.GF22899@redhat.com>

Il 01/09/2013 11:17, Gleb Natapov ha scritto:
> This makes me think are there other places where gfn_to_hva() was
> used, but gfn_to_hva_prot() should have been?
>  - kvm_host_page_size() looks incorrect. We never use huge page to map
>    read only memory slots currently.
>  - kvm_handle_bad_page() also looks incorrect and may cause incorrect
>    address to be reported to userspace.
>  - kvm_setup_async_pf() also incorrect. Makes all page fault on read
>    only slot to be sync.
>  - kvm_vm_fault() one looks OK since function assumes write only slots,
>    but it is obsolete and should be deleted anyway.
> 
> Others in generic and x86 code looks OK, somebody need to check ppc and
> arm code.

PPC is a mess, for s390 I couldn't find a spec.  ARM needs to be fixed.
 Patches coming...

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-14 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-30 12:41 [PATCH] KVM: mmu: allow page tables to be in read-only slots Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-01  9:17 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02  9:42   ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-09-02  9:49     ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02 10:05       ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-09-02 10:11         ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02 15:58           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-02 16:27             ` Gleb Natapov
2013-10-14 15:28   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-09-02  9:20 ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-09-02  9:25   ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02 10:00     ` Xiao Guangrong
2013-09-02 10:07       ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02 15:56         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-02 16:26           ` Gleb Natapov
2013-09-02 16:00     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-09-02 16:16       ` Gleb Natapov

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