On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 2:22 AM Sean Christopherson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> +David
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 3/29/23 18:43, Christian K�nig wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 3) other uses of kmap() must switch to MMU-notifier protection.
> > >
> > > I would rather suggest to return the page additionally to the pfn from
> > > hva_to_pfn() when the function was able to grab a reference to it.
> > >
> > > When the page is then not available you can't call kmap() on that either.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > If the DRM people are okay with SetPageReserved() as a temporary
> > > > hack, we can change or remove the WARN in kvm_is_zone_device_page(),
> > > > since that is what you are referring to in the commit message.
> > >
> > > Adding Daniel for additional comments on this, but essentially we have
> > > changed quite some infrastructure to make sure that everybody uses
> > > VM_PFNMAP to prevent stuff like this from happening.
> > >
> > > I would really prefer a proper solution in KVM instead.
> >
> > Hmm... Now that I think about it that would be
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]/t/
> >
> > Time to resurrect that work.
>
> Ya.  I had previously asked David to first eliminated the usage that isn't
> protected by mmu_notifiers, but after seeing the resulting complexity, I had a
> change of heart[2].  Can you weigh in on the latter thread, specifically my
> proposal of using a module param to let the admin opt-in to "unsafe" kmap 
> usage.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/[email protected]
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

I just finished rebasing my patch series and sent out v6:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

-David

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