Re: [PATCH v10 032/108] KVM: x86/mmu: Make sync_page not use hard-coded 0 as the initial SPTE value

From: Isaku Yamahata
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 12:56:00 EST


On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 11:24:44AM +0000,
"Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 23:22 -0700, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > FNAME(sync_page) in arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h assumes that the initial
> > shadow page table entry (SPTE) is zero. Remove the assumption by using
> > SHADOW_NONPRESENT_VALUE that will be updated from 0 to non-zero value.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> > index 5ab5f94dcb6f..6db3f2b5563a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h
> > @@ -1036,7 +1036,8 @@ static int FNAME(sync_page)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, struct kvm_mmu_page *sp)
> > gpa_t pte_gpa;
> > gfn_t gfn;
> >
> > - if (!sp->spt[i])
> > + /* spt[i] has initial value of shadow page table allocation */
> > + if (sp->spt[i] == SHADOW_NONPRESENT_VALUE)
> > continue;
> >
> > pte_gpa = first_pte_gpa + i * sizeof(pt_element_t);
>
> I think this patch can be merged to previous one? Looks there's no good reason
> to keep it as standalone.

Yes, will squash it.
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Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>