Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed

From	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed
Date	2016-07-06 08:10 +0200
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On 06/07/2016 04:00, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/05/2016 08:18 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 05/07/2016 07:41, Neo Jia wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 03:01:49PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>>>> The vGPU folks would like to trap the first access to a BAR by setting
>>>> vm_ops on the VMAs produced by mmap-ing a VFIO device.  The fault
>>>> handler
>>>> then can use remap_pfn_range to place some non-reserved pages in the
>>>> VMA.
>>>>
>>>> KVM lacks support for this kind of non-linear VM_PFNMAP mapping, and
>>>> these
>>>> patches should fix this.
>>>
>>> Hi Paolo,
>>>
>>> I have tested your patches with the mediated passthru patchset that
>>> is being
>>> reviewed in KVM and QEMU mailing list.
>>>
>>> The fault handler gets called successfully and the previously mapped
>>> memory gets
>>> unmmaped correctly via unmap_mapping_range.
>>
>> Great, then I'll include them in 4.8.
> 
> Code is okay, but i still suspect if this implementation, fetch mmio 
> pages in fault handler, is needed. We'd better include these patches
> after the design of vfio framework is decided.

I think that this fixes a bug anyway, the previous handling of VM_PFNMAP
is too simplistic.

Paolo

Thread

[PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-06-30 15:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/2] KVM: MMU: prepare to support mapping of VM_IO and VM_PFNMAP frames Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-06-30 15:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-01 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 08:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 10:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 10:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 17:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 03:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 03:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 06:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 07:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 08:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 09:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-05 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 06:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 12:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 10:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 11:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-04 11:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-04 09:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-04 09:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 07:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-05 14:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-05 16:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 04:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 04:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Neo Jia <cjia@nvidia.com> - 2016-07-06 05:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-06 06:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 13:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com> - 2016-07-07 04:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 08:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: MMU: support VMAs that got remap_pfn_range-ed Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> - 2016-07-06 18:00 +0200

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