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From: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/18] CXL RAM and the 'Soft Reserved' => 'System RAM' default
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:47:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/CeykFm6A4vYw7P@memverge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230215100327.0000728f@Huawei.com>

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:03:27AM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:54:02 -0500
> Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just clarifying one thing:  Even with the patch, KVM blows up.
> > Disabling KVM fixes this entirely.  I haven't tested without KVM but
> > with the patch, i will do that now.
> 
> yup.  The patch only fixes TCG so that's expected behavior.
> 
> Fingers crossed on this 'working'.
> 
> I'm open to suggestions on how to work around the problem with KVM
> or indeed allow TCG to cache the instructions (right not it has
> to fetch and emulate each instruction on it's own).
> 
> I can envision how we might do it for KVM with userspace page fault handling
> used to get a fault up to QEMU which can then stitch in a cache
> of the underlying memory as a stage 2 translation to the page (a little
> bit like how post migration copy works) though I've not prototyped
> anything...
> 

Just following up.  With the patch applied and KVM turned off, no crash.
I've been working with this for a while.

We should move the instruction alignment issue into a separate
discussion thread.


      reply	other threads:[~2023-02-21 15:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-06  1:02 Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:02 ` [PATCH 01/18] cxl/Documentation: Update references to attributes added in v6.0 Dan Williams
2023-02-06 15:17   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 16:37   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 17:27   ` [PATCH 1/18] " Davidlohr Bueso
2023-02-06 19:15   ` [PATCH 01/18] " Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 21:04   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-09  0:20   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:02 ` [PATCH 02/18] cxl/region: Add a mode attribute for regions Dan Williams
2023-02-06 15:46   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 17:47     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 16:39   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 19:16   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 21:05   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-09  0:22   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:02 ` [PATCH 03/18] cxl/region: Support empty uuids for non-pmem regions Dan Williams
2023-02-06 15:54   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 18:07     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:22   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 19:35     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-09  0:24   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:02 ` [PATCH 04/18] cxl/region: Validate region mode vs decoder mode Dan Williams
2023-02-06 16:02   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 18:14     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 16:44   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 21:51     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:55       ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 19:23   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 22:16   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-09  0:25   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:02 ` [PATCH 05/18] cxl/region: Add volatile region creation support Dan Williams
2023-02-06 16:18   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 18:19     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 16:55   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 21:57     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:56       ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 19:25   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 22:31   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-06 22:37     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-09  1:02   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 06/18] cxl/region: Refactor attach_target() for autodiscovery Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:06   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06 18:48     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:26   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 22:41   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-09  1:09   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 07/18] cxl/region: Move region-position validation to a helper Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:44   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 19:15     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-08 12:30   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09  4:09     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-09  4:26     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-09 11:07       ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09 20:52         ` Dan Williams
2023-02-09 19:45   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 08/18] kernel/range: Uplevel the cxl subsystem's range_contains() helper Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:02   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 22:01     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:28   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-06 23:41   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-08 12:32   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09 19:47   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 09/18] cxl/region: Enable CONFIG_CXL_REGION to be toggled Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:03   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 23:57   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-08 12:36   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09 20:17   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 10/18] cxl/region: Fix passthrough-decoder detection Dan Williams
2023-02-06  5:38   ` Greg KH
2023-02-06 17:22     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-07  0:00   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-08 12:44   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09 20:28   ` Verma, Vishal L
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 11/18] cxl/region: Add region autodiscovery Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:02   ` Ira Weiny
2023-02-07 23:54   ` Dave Jiang
2023-02-08 17:07   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09  4:07     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 12/18] tools/testing/cxl: Define a fixed volatile configuration to parse Dan Williams
2023-02-08 17:31   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-09 20:50     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 13/18] dax/hmem: Move HMAT and Soft reservation probe initcall level Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 14/18] dax/hmem: Drop unnecessary dax_hmem_remove() Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:15   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-08 17:33   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 15/18] dax/hmem: Convey the dax range via memregion_info() Dan Williams
2023-02-08 17:35   ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-06  1:03 ` [PATCH 16/18] dax/hmem: Move hmem device registration to dax_hmem.ko Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:04 ` [PATCH 17/18] dax: Assign RAM regions to memory-hotplug by default Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:26   ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 22:15     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 19:05       ` Gregory Price
2023-02-06 23:20         ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06  1:04 ` [PATCH 18/18] cxl/dax: Create dax devices for CXL RAM regions Dan Williams
2023-02-06  5:36 ` [PATCH 00/18] CXL RAM and the 'Soft Reserved' => 'System RAM' default Gregory Price
2023-02-06 16:40   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2023-02-06 18:23     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:29   ` Dan Williams
2023-02-06 17:18     ` Davidlohr Bueso
     [not found] ` <CGME20230208173730uscas1p2af3a9eeb8946dfa607b190c079a49653@uscas1p2.samsung.com>
2023-02-08 17:37   ` Fan Ni
2023-02-09  4:56     ` Dan Williams
2023-02-13 12:13 ` David Hildenbrand
2023-02-14 18:45   ` Dan Williams
2023-02-14 18:27 ` Gregory Price
2023-02-14 18:39   ` Dan Williams
2023-02-14 19:01     ` Gregory Price
2023-02-14 21:18       ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-14 21:51         ` Gregory Price
2023-02-14 21:54           ` Gregory Price
2023-02-15 10:03             ` Jonathan Cameron
2023-02-18  9:47               ` Gregory Price [this message]

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