Re: [PATCH] KVM: SVM: Use 'unsigned long' for the physical address passed to VMSAVE

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Wed Feb 03 2021 - 03:05:54 EST


On 02/02/21 23:34, Sean Christopherson wrote:
diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm_ops.h b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm_ops.h
index 0c8377aee52c..9f007bc8409a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm_ops.h
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm_ops.h
@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ static inline void invlpga(unsigned long addr, u32 asid)
svm_asm2(invlpga, "c"(asid), "a"(addr));
}
-static inline void vmsave(hpa_t pa)
+/*
+ * Despite being a physical address, the portion of rAX that is consumed by
+ * VMSAVE, VMLOAD, etc... is still controlled by the effective address size,
+ * hence 'unsigned long' instead of 'hpa_t'.
+ */
+static inline void vmsave(unsigned long pa)
{
svm_asm1(vmsave, "a" (pa), "memory");
}
--
2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog


Squashed, thanks.

Paolo