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Date:   Wed, 7 Apr 2021 21:57:02 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To:     Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>
Cc:     Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>, Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>,
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        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
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        Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
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        yuzenghui@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/2] KVM: arm64: Move CMOs from user_mem_abort to
 the fault handlers
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:31:31PM +0100, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> On 3/26/21 3:16 AM, Yanan Wang wrote:
> > We currently uniformly permorm CMOs of D-cache and I-cache in function
> > user_mem_abort before calling the fault handlers. If we get concurrent
> > guest faults(e.g. translation faults, permission faults) or some really
> > unnecessary guest faults caused by BBM, CMOs for the first vcpu are
> 
> I can't figure out what BBM means.

Oh, I know that one! BBM means "Break Before Make". Not to be confused with
DBM (Dirty Bit Management) or BFM (Bit Field Move).

Will