Re: [PATCH v11 06/35] KVM: x86/mmu: Pass around full 64-bit error code for KVM page faults

[Michael Roth]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:00:27AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 9:52 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Dec 30, 2023, Michael Roth wrote:
> > > In some cases the full 64-bit error code for the KVM page fault will be
> > > needed to determine things like whether or not a fault was for a private
> > > or shared guest page, so update related code to accept the full 64-bit
> > > value so it can be plumbed all the way through to where it is needed.
> > >
> > > The accessors of fault->error_code are changed as follows:
> > >
> > > - FNAME(page_fault): change to explicitly use lower_32_bits() since that
> > >                      is no longer done in kvm_mmu_page_fault()
> > > - kvm_mmu_page_fault(): explicit mask with PFERR_RSVD_MASK,
> > >                         PFERR_NESTED_GUEST_PAGE
> > > - mmutrace: changed u32 -> u64
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kvm/20230612042559.375660-1-michael.roth@xxxxxxx/T/#mbd0b20c9a2cf50319d5d2a27b63f73c772112076
> > > [mdr: drop references/changes to code not in current gmem tree, update
> > >       commit message]
> > > Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <michael.roth@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > I assume Isaku is the original author?  If so, that's missing from this patch.
> 
> The root of this patch seem to be in a reply to "KVM: x86: Add
> 'fault_is_private' x86 op"
> (https://patchew.org/linux/20230220183847.59159-1-michael.roth@xxxxxxx/20230220183847.59159-2-michael.roth@xxxxxxx/),
> so yes.

Yes this is Isaku's patch, I think the authorship got mangled during a rebase.
I'll make sure to get that fixed up.

-Mike

> 
> Paolo
>