Re: [PATCH v2 10/18] KVM: x86/mmu: load new PGD after the shadow MMU is initialized

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Fri Feb 18 2022 - 18:59:15 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Now that __kvm_mmu_new_pgd does not look at the MMU's root_level and
> shadow_root_level anymore, pull the PGD load after the initialization of
> the shadow MMUs.
>
> Besides being more intuitive, this enables future simplifications
> and optimizations because it's not necessary anymore to compute the
> role outside kvm_init_mmu. In particular, kvm_mmu_reset_context was not
> attempting to use a cached PGD to avoid having to figure out the new role.
> It will soon be able to follow what nested_{vmx,svm}_load_cr3 are doing,
> and avoid unloading all the cached roots.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>