Re: [vfio-users] PSA: Disable transparent huge pages on v4.5+

2016-04-29 Thread Jayme Howard
Are there any visible symptoms that occur when this happens? I've been running 4.5.0 since the week it released and haven't run into any unexpected issues (NVIDIA virtualization checks occasionally bite me, but I consider that expected). Just trying to determine if it's worth fixing what doesn't

[vfio-users] PSA: Disable transparent huge pages on v4.5+

2016-04-28 Thread Alex Williamson
Public service announcement: Changes that went in for the v4.5 kernel seems to be disrupting page pinning for vfio. This potentially means that VM pages could change out from under the IOMMU mapping resulting in incorrect DMA operations. Since v4.5 kernels are now starting to trickle into stable