Re: [PATCH v7 02/14] IOMMU/x86: perform PV Dom0 mappings in batches

["Durrant, Paul" <xadimgnik@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/07/2022 13:44, Jan Beulich wrote:
> For large page mappings to be easily usable (i.e. in particular without
> un-shattering of smaller page mappings) and for mapping operations to
> then also be more efficient, pass batches of Dom0 memory to iommu_map().
> In dom0_construct_pv() and its helpers (covering strict mode) this
> additionally requires establishing the type of those pages (albeit with
> zero type references).
>
> The earlier establishing of PGT_writable_page | PGT_validated requires
> the existing places where this gets done (through get_page_and_type())
> to be updated: For pages which actually have a mapping, the type
> refcount needs to be 1.
>
> There is actually a related bug that gets fixed here as a side effect:
> Typically the last L1 table would get marked as such only after
> get_page_and_type(..., PGT_writable_page). While this is fine as far as
> refcounting goes, the page did remain mapped in the IOMMU in this case
> (when "iommu=dom0-strict").
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul@xxxxxxx>