Re: [PATCH 3/3] KVM: nVMX: Emulate EPTP switching for the L1 hypervisor

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 08:41:23 EST


On 03/08/2017 13:39, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>> + /* AD, if set, should be supported */
>> + if ((address & VMX_EPT_AD_ENABLE_BIT)) {
>> + if (!enable_ept_ad_bits)
>> + return false;
> In theory (I guess) we would have to check here if
> (vmx->nested.nested_vmx_ept_caps & VMX_EPT_AD_BIT)

Yes, that's a more correct check than enable_ept_ad_bits.

>>
>> + page = nested_get_page(vcpu, vmcs12->eptp_list_address);
>> + if (!page)
>> + return 1;
>> +
>> + l1_eptp_list = kmap(page);
>> + address = l1_eptp_list[index];
>> + accessed_dirty = !!(address & VMX_EPT_AD_ENABLE_BIT);
>
> Minor nit: Can't you directly do
>
> kunmap(page);
> nested_release_page_clean(page);
>
> at this point?
>
> We can fix this up later.

You actually can do simply kvm_vcpu_read_guest_page(vcpu,
vmcs12->eptp_list_address >> PAGE_SHIFT, &address, index * 8, 8).

Paolo