Re: [PATCH 3/3] PPC: KVM: Add support for 64bit TCE windows

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On 05.06.14 12:27, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
On Thu, 2014-06-05 at 19:26 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
No trees yet. For 64GB window we need (64<<30)/(16<<20)*8 = 32K TCE table.
Do we really need trees?
The above is assuming hugetlbfs backed guests. These are the least of my worry
indeed. But we need to deal with 4k and 64k guests.

What if we ask user space to give us a pointer to user space allocated memory along with the TCE registration? We would still ask user space to only use the returned fd for TCE modifications, but would have some nicely swappable memory we can store the TCE entries in.

In fact, the code as is today can allocate an arbitrary amount of pinned kernel memory from within user space without any checks.


Alex

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