Re: [PATCH v3] KVM: vmx: fix ept reserved bits for 1-GByte page

[Wanpeng Li]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 08:51:38AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>Il 20/08/2014 05:17, Wanpeng Li ha scritto:
>> +	else if (spte & (1ULL << 7))
>
>You have to check level == 1 specifically here, or add...
>
>> +		/*
>> +		 * 1GB/2MB page, bits 29:12 or 20:12 reserved respectively,
>> +		 * level == 1 if the hypervisor is using the ignored bit 7.
>> +		 */
>> +		mask |= (PAGE_SIZE << ((level - 1) * 9)) - PAGE_SIZE;
>> +	else
>
>... "if (level > 1)" here.
>
>Otherwise, you're marking bits 6:3 as reserved for 4K pages.  This
>should cause a WARN, because KVM puts 0110 in those bits:
>
>                ret = (MTRR_TYPE_WRBACK << VMX_EPT_MT_EPTE_SHIFT)
>                        | VMX_EPT_IPAT_BIT;
>
>(in vmx_get_mt_mask: writeback memory, ignore PAT memory type from the
>guest's page tables)
>

Got it.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li 

>How are you testing this patch?
>
>Paolo
>
>> +		/* bits 6:3 reserved */
>> +		mask |= 0x78;
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