Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:47:13 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC Part2 PATCH 04/30] x86/mm: split the physmap when adding the page in RMP table |
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On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 12:46:53PM -0500, Brijesh Singh wrote: > - KVM calls alloc_page() to allocate a VMSA page. The allocator returns > 0xffffc80000200000 (PFN 0x200, page-level=2M). The VMSA page is private > page so KVM will call RMPUPDATE to add the page as a private page in the > RMP table. While adding the RMP entry the KVM will use the page level=4K.
Right, and *here* we split the 2M page on the *host* so that there's no discrepancy between the host pagetable and the RMP. I guess your patch does exactly that. :)
And AFAIR, set_memory.c doesn't have the functionality to coalesce 4K pages back into the corresponding 2M page. Which means, the RMP table is in sync, more or less.
Thx and thanks for elaborating.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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