>
> 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 identify 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.z.zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 8 ++++++--
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> index c44c406..969b6ca 100644
> --- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> +++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
> @@ -147,8 +147,12 @@ __weak void
> kvm_arch_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range(struct kvm *kvm,
>
> bool kvm_is_reserved_pfn(kvm_pfn_t pfn)
> {
> - if (pfn_valid(pfn))
> - return PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn));
> + struct page *page;
> +
> + if (pfn_valid(pfn)) {
> + page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> + return PageReserved(page) && !is_dax_page(page);
> + }
>
> return true;
> }
Acked-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx>
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
