Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Allocate stage-2 pgd pages with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT

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On 2020-10-26 23:41, Gavin Shan wrote:
Hi Will,

On 10/27/20 1:44 AM, Will Deacon wrote:
For consistency with the rest of the stage-2 page-table page allocations (performing using a kvm_mmu_memory_cache), ensure that __GFP_ACCOUNT is
included in the GFP flags for the PGD pages.

Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


The patch itself looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Another question is why the page-table pages for hyp mode aren't
allocated with __GFP_ACCOUNT in kvm_pgtable_hyp_init and hyp_map_walker()?

Why user task would you account the hypervisor mappings to? The page tables
used for HYP code and data are definitely not attributable to any task.

The kvm and kvm_vcpu mappings *could* be attributed to a user task, but
the page tables are likely shared with other tasks. So who gets the blame?

        M.
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