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While s390x makes sure to never have PMD-mapped THP in processes that use KVM -- by remapping them using PTEs in thp_split_walk_pmd_entry()->split_huge_pmd() -- there is still the possibility of having PTE-mapped THPs (large folios) mapped into guest memory. This would happen if user space allocates memory before calling KVM_CREATE_VM (which would call s390_enable_sie()). With upstream QEMU, this currently doesn't happen, because guest memory is setup and conditionally preallocated after KVM_CREATE_VM. Could it happen with shmem/file-backed memory when another process allocated memory in the pagecache? Likely, although currently not a common setup. Trying to split any PTE-mapped large folios sounds like the right and future-proof thing to do here. So let's call split_folio() and handle the return values accordingly. Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240508182955.358628-4-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.