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authorLaurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>2020-07-27 22:24:29 +0300
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>2020-07-28 05:34:52 +0300
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KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Rework secure mem slot dropping
When a secure memslot is dropped, all the pages backed in the secure device (aka really backed by secure memory by the Ultravisor) should be paged out to a normal page. Previously, this was achieved by triggering the page fault mechanism which is calling kvmppc_svm_page_out() on each pages. This can't work when hot unplugging a memory slot because the memory slot is flagged as invalid and gfn_to_pfn() is then not trying to access the page, so the page fault mechanism is not triggered. Since the final goal is to make a call to kvmppc_svm_page_out() it seems simpler to call directly instead of triggering such a mechanism. This way kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages() can be called even when hot unplugging a memslot. Since kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages() is already holding kvm->arch.uvmem_lock, the call to __kvmppc_svm_page_out() is made. As __kvmppc_svm_page_out needs the vma pointer to migrate the pages, the VMA is fetched in a lazy way, to not trigger find_vma() all the time. In addition, the mmap_sem is held in read mode during that time, not in write mode since the virual memory layout is not impacted, and kvm->arch.uvmem_lock prevents concurrent operation on the secure device. Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com> [modified check on the VMA in kvmppc_uvmem_drop_pages] Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> [modified the changelog description] Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
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