Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86/mmu: Don't skip non-leaf SPTEs when zapping all SPTEs

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 12/08/21 07:07, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > @@ -739,8 +749,16 @@ static bool zap_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
> > >   			  gfn_t start, gfn_t end, bool can_yield, bool flush,
> > >   			  bool shared)
> > >   {
> > > +	bool zap_all = (end == ZAP_ALL_END);
> > >   	struct tdp_iter iter;
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Bound the walk at host.MAXPHYADDR, guest accesses beyond that will
> > > +	 * hit a #PF(RSVD) and never get to an EPT Violation/Misconfig / #NPF,
> > > +	 * and so KVM will never install a SPTE for such addresses.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	end = min(end, 1ULL << (shadow_phys_bits - PAGE_SHIFT));
> > 
> > Then zap_all need not have any magic value.  You can use 0/-1ull, it's
> > readable enough.  ZAP_ALL_END is also unnecessary here if you do:
> > 
> > 	gfn_t max_gfn_host = 1ULL << (shadow_phys_bits - PAGE_SHIFT);
> > 	bool zap_all = (start == 0 && end >= max_gfn_host);
> 
> Aha!  Nice.  I was both too clever and yet not clever enough.

And as a bonus, this also works for kvm_post_set_cr0(), which calls the common
kvm_zap_gfn_range() with 0 - ALL_ONES.