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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:04:52 +0100 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] KVM: arm64: Add pre_fault_memory implementation To: Alexandru Elisei Cc: maz@kernel.org, oupton@kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, joey.gouly@arm.com, seiden@linux.ibm.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, vladimir.murzin@arm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, isaku.yamahata@intel.com, Jack Thomson References: <20260612162354.73378-1-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com> <20260612162354.73378-3-jackabt.amazon@gmail.com> <0365d77d-616b-47f7-a5f2-3388bad692a1@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: "Thomson, Jack" In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Alex, On 25/08/2026 1:29 pm, Alexandru Elisei wrote: [...] > > I think there's a word missing there, I meant to say that it would be useful to > explain *why* the x86 implementation does not mark new PTEs as accessed, while > arm64 marks them as accessed, and arm64 also does that for existing PTEs. > Ah got you, I'll update the docs in v6 to explain that. Thanks! > I was wondering if you have any plans about posting an updated series. Yeah I have v6 almost ready, I've addressed the comments. While testing it found an issue on pKVM which would case a hyp panic if we prefaulted before it's first run, the EL2 context load blows up. So I've also go a fix for that bundled in. I'm just tidying a few bits up and hopefully have it out within the next couple of days. -- Thanks, Jack