Re: [PATCH 0/2] KVM: async_pf: use_mm/mm_users fixes

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Thu Apr 24 2014 - 10:28:30 EST


On 21/04/14 15:25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Completely untested and I know nothing about kvm ;) Please review.
>
> But use_mm() really looks misleading, and the usage of mm_users looks
> "obviously wrong". I already sent this change while we were discussing
> vmacache, but it was ignored. Since then kvm_async_page_present_sync()
> was added into async_pf_execute() into async_pf_execute(), but it seems
> to me that use_mm() is still unnecessary.
>
> Oleg.
>
> virt/kvm/async_pf.c | 10 ++++------
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>

I gave both patches some testing on s390, seems fine. I think patch2 really
does fix a bug. So if Paolo, Marcelo, Gleb agree (maybe do a test on x86 for
async_pf) both patches are good to go. Given that somebody tests this on x86:

Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>

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