From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Harshit Mogalapalli <harshit.m.mogalapalli@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.15.y 6/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename __direct_map() to direct_map()
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2026 12:50:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <anS7OLhkr67ZDsx4@laps> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6c049895-dfc1-4cb4-b90d-35d2ae503153@oracle.com>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2026 at 09:49:23PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>Hi Sasha
>
>On 31/07/26 12:59 am, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>From: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
>>
>>[ Upstream commit 6c882ef4fc7bd99b67ad152e75428b669281c521 ]
>>
>>Rename __direct_map() to direct_map() since the leading underscores are
>>unnecessary. This also makes the page fault handler names more
>>consistent: kvm_tdp_mmu_page_fault() calls kvm_tdp_mmu_map() and
>>direct_page_fault() calls direct_map().
>>
>>Opportunistically make some trivial cleanups to comments that had to be
>>modified anyway since they mentioned __direct_map(). Specifically, use
>>"()" when referring to functions, and include kvm_tdp_mmu_map() among
>>the various callers of disallowed_hugepage_adjust().
>>
>>No functional change intended.
>>
>>Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
>>Reviewed-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
>>Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>Message-Id: <20220921173546.2674386-11-dmatlack@google.com>
>>Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>>Stable-dep-of: 2abd5287f083 ("KVM: x86: Check for invalid/obsolete root *after* making MMU pages available")
>>Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
>
>I don't see them in queue-5.15 , FYI.
I don't think Greg got to these yet. We normally let these sit on the mailing
list for a bit, for review.
>Also I think along with 6 prerequisites and final 7th patch, we also
>might need: commit: 9f33697ac7ff ("KVM: x86/mmu: Stop needlessly
>making MMU pages available for TDP MMU faults") should be a clean
>cherru-pick.
Possibly, but there's no fixes or stable tag on it, so without an ack from the
KVM folks it won't go in.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-06 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-25 6:52 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] KVM: x86: Check for invalid/obsolete root *after* making MMU" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 1/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Directly "destroy" PTE list when recycling rmaps Sasha Levin
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 2/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename pte_list_{destroy,remove}() to show they zap SPTEs Sasha Levin
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 3/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Document the "rules" for using host_pfn_mapping_level() Sasha Levin
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 4/6] KVM: Rename mmu_notifier_* to mmu_invalidate_* Sasha Levin
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 5/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Split out TDP MMU page fault handling Sasha Levin
2026-07-30 19:29 ` [PATCH 5.15.y 6/6] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename __direct_map() to direct_map() Sasha Levin
2026-08-06 16:19 ` Harshit Mogalapalli
2026-08-06 16:50 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-08-21 12:38 ` Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 3:42 ` Sasha Levin
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 0/8] backport for CVE-2026-64561 Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 1/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Retry page fault if root is invalidated by memslot update Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 2/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Directly "destroy" PTE list when recycling rmaps Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 3/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename pte_list_{destroy,remove}() to show they zap SPTEs Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 4/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Document the "rules" for using host_pfn_mapping_level() Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 5/8] KVM: Rename mmu_notifier_* to mmu_invalidate_* Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 6/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Split out TDP MMU page fault handling Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 7/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename __direct_map() to direct_map() Kenta Akagi
2026-08-23 13:07 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 8/8] KVM: x86: Check for invalid/obsolete root *after* making MMU pages available Kenta Akagi
2026-08-25 11:49 ` [PATCH 5.15.y v2 0/8] backport for CVE-2026-64561 Sasha Levin
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