On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 03:56:13PM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > Hi, > > A pseries guest can be run as a secure guest on Ultravisor-enabled > POWER platforms. On such platforms, this driver will be used to manage > the movement of guest pages between the normal memory managed by > hypervisor(HV) and secure memory managed by Ultravisor(UV). > > Private ZONE_DEVICE memory equal to the amount of secure memory > available in the platform for running secure guests is created. > Whenever a page belonging to the guest becomes secure, a page from > this private device memory is used to represent and track that secure > page on the HV side. The movement of pages between normal and secure > memory is done via migrate_vma_pages(). The reverse movement is driven > via pagemap_ops.migrate_to_ram(). > > The page-in or page-out requests from UV will come to HV as hcalls and > HV will call back into UV via uvcalls to satisfy these page requests. > > These patches are against hmm.git > (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma.git/log/?h=hmm) > > plus > > Claudio Carvalho's base ultravisor enablement patchset v6 > (https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20190822034838.27876-1-cclaudio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#t) How are you thinking these patches will go upstream? Are you going to send them via the hmm tree? I assume you need Claudio's patchset as a prerequisite for your series to compile, which means the hmm maintainers would need to pull in a topic branch from Michael Ellerman's powerpc tree, or something like that. Paul.
