Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:15:56 -0400 | From | Jerome Glisse <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] mmu_notifier semantic update |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 04:11:28PM -0400, Jérôme Glisse wrote: > So we do not want to allow sleep during call to mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() > but some code do not have surrounding mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()/ > mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() or mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() > > This patch serie just make sure that there is at least a call (outside spinlock > section) to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range() after mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() > > This fix issue with AMD IOMMU v2 while avoiding to introduce issue for others > user of the mmu_notifier API. For releavent threads see: > > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170809204333.27485-1-jglisse@redhat.com > https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170804134928.l4klfcnqatni7vsc@black.fi.intel.com > https://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=150327081325160&w=2
Please ignore this. Instead plan is to kill invalidate_page() switch it to invalidate_range() and make sure there is always range_start/ range_end happening around.
Jérôme
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