Re: [RFC 11/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/18/21 19:02, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > but that's not a great name because the former is used also when shadowing
> > > EPT/NPT.  I'm thinking of standardizing on "shadow" and "TDP" (it's not
> > > perfect because of the 32-bit and tdp_mmu=0 cases, but it's a start).  Maybe
> > > even split parts of mmu.c out into shadow_mmu.c.
> > But shadow is flat out wrong until EPT and NPT support is ripped out of the "legacy"
> > MMU.
> 
> Yeah, that's true.  "full" MMU? :)

Or we could just rip out non-nested TDP support from the legacy MMU and call it
the shadow MMU :-)