Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] KVM: x86: assign two bits to track SPTE kinds

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/12/19 20:13, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Assuming we haven't missed something, the easiest fix would be to reduce
> the MMIO generation by one bit and use bits 62:54 for the MMIO generation.

Yes, and I mistakenly thought it would be done just by adjusting 
PT64_SECOND_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT.

I will test and send formally something like this:

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
index 6f92b40d798c..aa2d86f42b9a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
@@ -405,11 +405,13 @@ static inline bool is_access_track_spte(u64 spte)
 }
 
 /*
- * Due to limited space in PTEs, the MMIO generation is a 19 bit subset of
+ * Due to limited space in PTEs, the MMIO generation is a 18 bit subset of
  * the memslots generation and is derived as follows:
  *
  * Bits 0-8 of the MMIO generation are propagated to spte bits 3-11
- * Bits 9-18 of the MMIO generation are propagated to spte bits 52-61
+ * Bits 9-17 of the MMIO generation are propagated to spte bits 54-62
  *
+ * We don't use bit 63 to avoid conflicting with the SVE bit in EPT PTEs.
+ *
  * The KVM_MEMSLOT_GEN_UPDATE_IN_PROGRESS flag is intentionally not included in
  * the MMIO generation number, as doing so would require stealing a bit from
@@ -418,15 +418,16 @@ static inline bool is_access_track_spte(u64 spte)
  * requires a full MMU zap).  The flag is instead explicitly queried when
  * checking for MMIO spte cache hits.
  */
-#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(18, 0)
+#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(17, 0)
 
 #define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_START		3
 #define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_END		11
 #define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_END, \
 						    MMIO_SPTE_GEN_LOW_START)
 
-#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_START	52
-#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_END		61
+/* Leave room for SPTE_SPECIAL_MASK.  */
+#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_START	PT64_SECOND_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT
+#define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_END		62
 #define MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_MASK		GENMASK_ULL(MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_END, \
 						    MMIO_SPTE_GEN_HIGH_START)
 static u64 generation_mmio_spte_mask(u64 gen)


Paolo