On Thu 09-08-18 18:52:48, Zhang Yi wrote: > For device specific memory space, when we move these area of pfn to > memory zone, we will set the page reserved flag at that time, some of > these reserved for device mmio, and some of these are not, such as > NVDIMM pmem. > > Now, we map these dev_dax or fs_dax pages to kvm for DIMM/NVDIMM > backend, since these pages are reserved. the check of > kvm_is_reserved_pfn() misconceives those pages as MMIO. Therefor, we > introduce 2 page map types, MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX/MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX, > to indentify these pages are from NVDIMM pmem. and let kvm treat these > as normal pages. > > Without this patch, Many operations will be missed due to this > mistreatment to pmem pages. For example, a page may not have chance to > be unpinned for KVM guest(in kvm_release_pfn_clean); not able to be > marked as dirty/accessed(in kvm_set_pfn_dirty/accessed) etc. > > V1: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/4/91 > > V2: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/10/135 > > V3: > [PATCH V3 1/4] Needs Comments. > [PATCH V3 2/4] Update the description of MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX: Jan > [PATCH V3 3/4] Acked-by: Jan in V2 Hum, but it is not the the patch... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
