Re: [PATCH] kvm: vmx: Use the hardware provided GPA instead of page walk

[Radim KrÄmÃÅ]

2017-01-27 19:34+0100, Paolo Bonzini:
> As in the SVM patch, the guest physical address is passed by
> VMX to x86_emulate_instruction already, so mark the GPA as available
> in vcpu->arch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

In line with the SVM patch,

Reviewed-by: Radim KrÄmÃÅ <rkrcmar@xxxxxxxxxx>

Still, I don't see why we need a variable that is touched on every VM
exit.  Is this a mere shortcut to propagating the gpa_available bit with
the gpa argument to kvm_mmu_page_fault() and x86_emulate_instruction()?

Thanks.