Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:55:45 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: async_pf: use_mm/mm_users fixes |
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On 04/24, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > > On 21/04/14 15:25, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Completely untested and I know nothing about kvm ;) Please review. > > > > But use_mm() really looks misleading, and the usage of mm_users looks > > "obviously wrong". I already sent this change while we were discussing > > vmacache, but it was ignored. Since then kvm_async_page_present_sync() > > was added into async_pf_execute() into async_pf_execute(), but it seems > > to me that use_mm() is still unnecessary. > > > > Oleg. > > > > virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 10 ++++------ > > 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > > > I gave both patches some testing on s390, seems fine. I think patch2 really > does fix a bug. So if Paolo, Marcelo, Gleb agree (maybe do a test on x86 for > async_pf) both patches are good to go. Given that somebody tests this on x86: > > Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Thanks!
I think x86 should be fine, it doesn't select CONFIG_KVM_ASYNC_PF_SYNC and get_user_pages() is certainly fine without use_mm(). And I still think it should do get_user_pages(tsk => NULL) but this is minor.
Oleg.
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