On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:40:37AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 01:00:25AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote: > > > > +int kvmppc_uv_migrate_mem_slot(struct kvm *kvm, > > + const struct kvm_memory_slot *memslot) > > Don't see any callers for this outside of this file, so why not static? > > > +{ > > + unsigned long gfn = memslot->base_gfn; > > + struct vm_area_struct *vma; > > + unsigned long start, end; > > + int ret = 0; > > + > > + while (kvmppc_next_nontransitioned_gfn(memslot, kvm, &gfn)) { > > So you checked the state of gfn under uvmem_lock above, but release > it too. > > > + > > + mmap_read_lock(kvm->mm); > > + start = gfn_to_hva(kvm, gfn); > > + if (kvm_is_error_hva(start)) { > > + ret = H_STATE; > > + goto next; > > + } > > + > > + end = start + (1UL << PAGE_SHIFT); > > + vma = find_vma_intersection(kvm->mm, start, end); > > + if (!vma || vma->vm_start > start || vma->vm_end < end) { > > + ret = H_STATE; > > + goto next; > > + } > > + > > + mutex_lock(&kvm->arch.uvmem_lock); > > + ret = kvmppc_svm_migrate_page(vma, start, end, > > + (gfn << PAGE_SHIFT), kvm, PAGE_SHIFT, false); > > What is the guarantee that the gfn is in the same earlier state when you do > do migration here? Are you worried about the case, where someother thread will sneak-in and migrate the GFN, and this migration request will become a duplicate one? That is theortically possible, though practically improbable. This transition is attempted only when there is one vcpu active in the VM. However, may be, we should not bake-in that assumption in this code. Will remove that assumption. RP