Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] KVM: x86: Move #PF retry tracking variables into emulation context

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 19/02/20 16:16, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The easy solution to that is to move retry_instruction() into emulate.c.
> That would also allow making x86_page_table_writing_insn() static.  All
> other functions invoked from retry_instruction() are exposed via kvm_host.h.

emulate.c is supposed to invoke no (or almost no) function outside the
ctxt->ops struct.  In particular, retry_instruction() invokes
kvm_mmu_gva_to_gpa_write and kvm_mmu_unprotect_page.

Paolo