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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c index 97b45eaa7014..bc3f795252fd 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_64_mmu_radix.c @@ -429,9 +429,13 @@ void kvmppc_unmap_pte(struct kvm *kvm, pte_t *pte, unsigned long gpa, * Callers are responsible for flushing the PWC. * * When page tables are being unmapped/freed as part of page fault path - * (full == false), ptes are not expected. There is code to unmap them - * and emit a warning if encountered, but there may already be data - * corruption due to the unexpected mappings. + * (full == false), valid ptes are generally not expected; however, there + * is one situation where they arise, which is when dirty page logging is + * turned off for a memslot while the VM is running. The new memslot + * becomes visible to page faults before the memslot commit function + * gets to flush the memslot, which can lead to a 2MB page mapping being + * installed for a guest physical address where there are already 64kB + * (or 4kB) mappings (of sub-pages of the same 2MB page). */ static void kvmppc_unmap_free_pte(struct kvm *kvm, pte_t *pte, bool full, unsigned int lpid) @@ -445,7 +449,6 @@ static void kvmppc_unmap_free_pte(struct kvm *kvm, pte_t *pte, bool full, for (it = 0; it < PTRS_PER_PTE; ++it, ++p) { if (pte_val(*p) == 0) continue; - WARN_ON_ONCE(1); kvmppc_unmap_pte(kvm, p, pte_pfn(*p) << PAGE_SHIFT, PAGE_SHIFT, NULL, lpid); |