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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/5] kvm: arm64: New memslot flag to indicate cacheable mapping
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 04:42:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA1PR12MB71994C3F10A7E0136562B975B062A@SA1PR12MB7199.namprd12.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA1PR12MB71990A84FDB4350DC02CEC6EB064A@SA1PR12MB7199.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>
>> I thought we agreed not to do this? Sean was strongly against it
>> right?
>>
>> There is no easy way for VFIO to know to set it, and the kernel will
>> not allow switching a cachable VMA to non-cachable anyhow.
>>
>> So all it does is make it harder to create a memslot.
> Oliver had mentioned earlier that he would still prefer a memslot flag as
> VMM should convey its intent through that flag:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/aAdKCGCuwlUeUXKY@linux.dev/
>
> Oliver, could you please confirm if you are convinced with not having this
> flag? Can we rely on MT_NORMAL in vma mapping to convey this?
Humble reminder for Oliver to comment to conclude on whether we really
need this memslot flag.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-06-02 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-24 1:39 [PATCH v6 0/5] KVM: arm64: Map GPU device memory as cacheable ankita
2025-05-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] KVM: arm64: Block cacheable PFNMAP mapping ankita
2025-05-26 15:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-05-27 4:04 ` Ankit Agrawal
2025-06-06 18:11 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-06-09 12:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-06-09 14:21 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-05-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] KVM: arm64: New function to determine hardware cache management support ankita
2025-05-27 0:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-05-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] kvm: arm64: New memslot flag to indicate cacheable mapping ankita
2025-05-27 0:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-05-27 4:33 ` Ankit Agrawal
2025-06-02 4:42 ` Ankit Agrawal [this message]
2025-06-06 17:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-06-13 19:38 ` Oliver Upton
2025-06-16 11:37 ` Ankit Agrawal
2025-05-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] KVM: arm64: Allow cacheable stage 2 mapping using VMA flags ankita
2025-06-06 18:14 ` Sean Christopherson
2025-05-24 1:39 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] KVM: arm64: Expose new KVM cap for cacheable PFNMAP ankita
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