Re: [PATCH 05/13] KVM: MMU: reset shadow_mmio_mask

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/29/2012 05:28 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/29/2012 03:10 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> > On 03/29/2012 11:23 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > > Do not use the last byte (bit 56 ~ bit 63) in shadow_mmio_mask, the late
> > > patch will store vcpu id in the last byte
> >
> > Bit 63 is PT64_NX_MASK.
>
> Oh, you did say that with softmmu we're limited to 127 cpus.  But what
> if spte.nx is changed while we update the identity?

Ok, saw that too.  But I think test_and_set_bit() is better here, to
reduce the complexity (note we need cmpxchg64b on 32-bit instead).

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