On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:01:31 +0100, Oliver Upton <oliver.upton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Small series to address the soft lockups that Gavin hits when running > KVM guests w/ hugepages on an Ampere Altra Max machine. While I > absolutely loathe "fixing" the issue of slow I-cache CMOs in this way, > I can't really think of an alternative. I don't think there is any, unfortunately. I don't think this change is inherently bad (we should have added something like this a long while ago), but it scares me that these systems can apparently be DoS'd from userspace or a guest... Anyway: Reviewed-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
