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From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
To: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, david@kernel.org, seiden@linux.ibm.com,
	nrb@linux.ibm.com, schlameuss@linux.ibm.com, gra@linux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix unshadowing logic
Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 13:28:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15cb5a1f-4342-4d24-81ca-9397f3f83288@de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260512175251.300882-4-imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>

Am 12.05.26 um 19:52 schrieb Claudio Imbrenda:
> In some cases (i.e. under extreme memory pressure on the host),
> attempting to shadow memory will result in the same memory being
> unshadowed, causing a loop.
> 
> Add a PGSTE bit to distinguish between shadowed memory and shadowed DAT
> tables, fix the unshadowing logic in _gmap_ptep_xchg() to prevent
> unnecessary unshadowing and perform better checks.
> 
> Also fix the unshadowing logic in _gmap_crstep_xchg_atomic() which did
> not unshadow properly when the large page would become unprotected.
> 
> Opportunistilcally add a check in gmap_protect_rmap() to make sure it
               ^
   Opportunistically

[...]
> +static inline bool pte_needs_unshadow(union pte oldpte, union pte newpte, union pgste pgste)
> +{
> +	if (!pgste.vsie_notif)
> +		return false;
> +	if (pgste.vsie_gmem)
> +		return (oldpte.h.p != newpte.h.p) || newpte.h.i;
> +	return !newpte.h.p || !newpte.s.pr;
> +}
> +

The newpte.s.pr part is new and seems not related to the vsie_gmem change
but I cannot find anything about this in the patch description. And I dont
understand this part. So either some explanation here, in the patch description or
a comment maybe?

>   static inline union pgste _gmap_ptep_xchg(struct gmap *gmap, union pte *ptep, union pte newpte,
>   					  union pgste pgste, gfn_t gfn, bool needs_lock)
>   {
> @@ -180,8 +189,9 @@ static inline union pgste _gmap_ptep_xchg(struct gmap *gmap, union pte *ptep, un
>   		pgste.prefix_notif = 0;
>   		gmap_unmap_prefix(gmap, gfn, gfn + 1);
>   	}
> -	if (pgste.vsie_notif && (ptep->h.p != newpte.h.p || newpte.h.i)) {
> +	if (pte_needs_unshadow(*ptep, newpte, pgste)) {
>   		pgste.vsie_notif = 0;
> +		pgste.vsie_gmem = 0;
>   		if (needs_lock)
>   			gmap_handle_vsie_unshadow_event(gmap, gfn);
>   		else
[...]

  reply	other threads:[~2026-05-18 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-12 17:52 [PATCH v2 0/5] KVM: s390: some vSIE and UCONTROL fixes Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix memory leak when unshadowing Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-13  7:50   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] KVM: s390: Fix leaking kvm_s390_mmu_cache in case of errors Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-13  7:56   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix unshadowing logic Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-18 11:28   ` Christian Borntraeger [this message]
2026-05-19 11:40     ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] KVM: s390: vsie: Fix redundant rmap entries Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-18 11:54   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-12 17:52 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] KVM: s390: Properly reset zero bit in PGSTE Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-15 11:51   ` Steffen Eiden
2026-05-18 11:44   ` Christian Borntraeger
2026-05-19 11:38     ` Claudio Imbrenda
2026-05-19 11:57       ` Christian Borntraeger

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