Re: [PATCH 11/14] KVM: arm64: Expose kvm_pte_valid() helper

[Fuad Tabba]

Hi Quentin,


On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 11:48 AM Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The KVM pgtable API exposes the kvm_pgtable_walk() function to allow
> the definition of walkers outside of pgtable.c. However, it is not easy
> to implement any of those walkers without some of the low-level helpers,
> such as kvm_pte_valid(). Make it static inline, and move it to the
> header file to allow its re-use in other places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h | 7 +++++++
>  arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c         | 6 ------
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> index 1aa49d6aabb7..8240c881ae1e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_pgtable.h
> @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ static inline u64 kvm_get_parange(u64 mmfr0)
>
>  typedef u64 kvm_pte_t;
>
> +#define KVM_PTE_VALID                  BIT(0)
> +

I don't know if there's a better solution for this, but having the
KVM_PTE_VALID by itself here, with the rest remaining in pgtable.c
might be confusing. I see that you probably don't want to move them
all here because they are internal to pgtable.c.

Thanks,
/fuad

> +static inline bool kvm_pte_valid(kvm_pte_t pte)
> +{
> +       return pte & KVM_PTE_VALID;
> +}
> +
>  /**
>   * struct kvm_pgtable_mm_ops - Memory management callbacks.
>   * @zalloc_page:               Allocate a single zeroed memory page.
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> index c7120797404a..e0ae57dca827 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/hyp/pgtable.c
> @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
>  #include <asm/kvm_pgtable.h>
>  #include <asm/stage2_pgtable.h>
>
> -#define KVM_PTE_VALID                  BIT(0)
>
>  #define KVM_PTE_TYPE                   BIT(1)
>  #define KVM_PTE_TYPE_BLOCK             0
> @@ -135,11 +134,6 @@ static u32 kvm_pgd_pages(u32 ia_bits, u32 start_level)
>         return __kvm_pgd_page_idx(&pgt, -1ULL) + 1;
>  }
>
> -static bool kvm_pte_valid(kvm_pte_t pte)
> -{
> -       return pte & KVM_PTE_VALID;
> -}
> -
>  static bool kvm_pte_table(kvm_pte_t pte, u32 level)
>  {
>         if (level == KVM_PGTABLE_MAX_LEVELS - 1)
> --
> 2.32.0.402.g57bb445576-goog
>