On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 06:19:13PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 04/02/21 18:16, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Export follow_pte() to fix build breakage when KVM is built as a module.
> > An in-flight KVM fix switches from follow_pfn() to follow_pte() in order
> > to grab the page protections along with the PFN.
> >
> > Fixes: bd2fae8da794 ("KVM: do not assume PTE is writable after follow_pfn")
> > Cc: David Stevens <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jann Horn <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <[email protected]>
> >
> > Paolo, maybe you can squash this with the appropriate acks?
>
> Indeed, you beat me by a minute. This change is why I hadn't sent out the
> patch yet.
>
> Andrew or Jason, ok to squash this?
I think usual process would be to put this in the patch/series/pr that
needs it.
Given how badly follow_pfn has been misused, I would greatly prefer to
see you add a kdoc along with exporting it - making it clear about the
rules.
And it looks like we should remove the range argument for modular use
And document the locking requirements, it does a lockless read of the
page table:
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, address);
if (pgd_none(*pgd) || unlikely(pgd_bad(*pgd)))
goto out;
p4d = p4d_offset(pgd, address);
It doesn't do the trickery that fast GUP does, so it must require the
mmap sem in read mode at least.
Not sure I understand how fsdax is able to call it only under the
i_mmap_lock_read lock? What prevents a page table level from being
freed concurrently?
And it is missing READ_ONCE's for the lockless page table walk.. :(
Jason
