Re: [RFC 11/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte

[Sean Christopherson]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/18/21 17:37, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > It's a bit ugly in that we'd pass both @kvm and @vcpu, so that needs some more
> > > thought, but at minimum it means there's no need to recalc the reserved bits.
> > 
> > Ok, I think my final vote is to have the reserved bits passed in, but with the
> > non-nested TDP reserved bits being computed at MMU init.
> 
> Yes, and that's also where I was getting with the idea of moving part of the
> "direct" MMU (man, naming these things is so hard) to struct kvm: split the
> per-vCPU state from the constant one and initialize the latter just once.
> Though perhaps I was putting the cart slightly before the horse.
> 
> On the topic of naming, we have a lot of things to name:
> 
> - the two MMU codebases: you Googlers are trying to grandfather "legacy" and
> "TDP" into upstream

Heh, I think that's like 99.9% me.

> but that's not a great name because the former is used also when shadowing
> EPT/NPT.  I'm thinking of standardizing on "shadow" and "TDP" (it's not
> perfect because of the 32-bit and tdp_mmu=0 cases, but it's a start).  Maybe
> even split parts of mmu.c out into shadow_mmu.c.

But shadow is flat out wrong until EPT and NPT support is ripped out of the "legacy"
MMU.

> - the two walkers (I'm quite convinced of splitting that part out of struct
> kvm_mmu and getting rid of walk_mmu/nested_mmu): that's easy, it can be
> walk01 and walk12 with "walk" pointing to one of them

I am all in favor of walk01 and walk12, the guest_mmu vs. nested_mmu confusion
is painful.

> - the two MMUs: with nested_mmu gone, root_mmu and guest_mmu are much less
> confusing and we can keep those names.

I would prefer root_mmu and nested_tdp_mmu.  guest_mmu is misleading because its
not used for all cases of sp->role.guest_mode=1, i.e. when L1 is not using TDP
then guest_mode=1 but KVM isn't using guest_mmu.