> On 13 Dec 2019, at 19:50, Sean Christopherson 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 07:31:55PM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
>> 
>>> On 13 Dec 2019, at 19:19, Sean Christopherson 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Then allowed_hugepage_adjust() would look something like:
>>> 
>>> static void allowed_hugepage_adjust(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gfn_t gfn,
>>>                                 kvm_pfn_t *pfnp, int *levelp, int max_level)
>>> {
>>>     kvm_pfn_t pfn = *pfnp;
>>>     int level = *levelp;    
>>>     unsigned long mask;
>>> 
>>>     if (is_error_noslot_pfn(pfn) || !kvm_is_reserved_pfn(pfn) ||
>>>         level == PT_PAGE_TABLE_LEVEL)
>>>             return;
>>> 
>>>     /*
>>>      * mmu_notifier_retry() was successful and mmu_lock is held, so
>>>      * the pmd/pud can't be split from under us.
>>>      */
>>>     level = host_pfn_mapping_level(vcpu->kvm, gfn, pfn);
>>> 
>>>     *levelp = level = min(level, max_level);
>>>     mask = KVM_PAGES_PER_HPAGE(level) - 1;
>>>     VM_BUG_ON((gfn & mask) != (pfn & mask));
>>>     *pfnp = pfn & ~mask;
>> 
>> Why don’t you still need to kvm_release_pfn_clean() for original pfn and
>> kvm_get_pfn() for new huge-page start pfn?
> 
> That code is gone in kvm/queue.  thp_adjust() is now called from
> __direct_map() and FNAME(fetch), and so its pfn adjustment doesn't bleed
> back to the page fault handlers.  The only reason the put/get pfn code
> existed was because the page fault handlers called kvm_release_pfn_clean()
> on the pfn, i.e. they would have put the wrong pfn.

Ack. Thanks for the explaining this.

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