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Re: [PATCH] xen: fix usage of pmd/pud_poplulate in mremap for pv guests
- To: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:07:59 +0200
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On 08.09.2021 09:36, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Commit 0881ace292b662 ("mm/mremap: use pmd/pud_poplulate to update page
> table entries") introduced a regression when running as Xen PV guest.
The description of that change starts with "pmd/pud_populate is the
right interface to be used to set the respective page table entries."
If this is deemed true, I don't think pmd_populate() should call
paravirt_alloc_pte(): The latter function, as its name says, is
supposed to be called for newly allocated page tables only (aiui).
> Today pmd/pud_poplulate() for Xen PV assumes that the PFN inserted is
> referencing a not yet used page table. In case of move_normal_pmd/pud()
> this is not true, resulting in WARN splats like:
I agree for the PMD part, but is including PUD here really correct?
While I don't know why that is, xen_alloc_ptpage() pins L1 tables
only. Hence a PUD update shouldn't be able to find a pinned L2
table.
Jan
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