Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: X86: Cache CR3 in prev_roots when PCID is disabled

From: Lai Jiangshan
Date: Thu Oct 21 2021 - 22:11:16 EST


On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 1:43 AM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> * If CR4.PCIDE is changed 1 -> 0, the guest TLB must be flushed.
> * If CR4.PCIDE is changed 0 -> 1, there is no need to flush the TLB
> * according to the SDM; however, stale prev_roots could be reused
> * reused incorrectly by MOV to CR3 with NOFLUSH=1, so we free them
> * all. KVM_REQ_MMU_RELOAD is fit for the both cases; it
> * is slow, but changing CR4.PCIDE is a rare case.
>

There is a double "reused" separated by "\".

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> Can you confirm the above comments are accurate?
>

Yes, they are better and consistent with what I meant, only one redundant
"reused" in the comments.

thanks
Lai