Re: [PATCH v2 21/25] KVM: x86/mmu: replace shadow_root_level with root_role.level

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Tue Mar 08 2022 - 14:48:33 EST


On Mon, Feb 21, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> root_role.level is always the same value as shadow_level:
>
> - it's kvm_mmu_get_tdp_level(vcpu) when going through init_kvm_tdp_mmu
>
> - it's the level argument when going through kvm_init_shadow_ept_mmu
>
> - it's assigned directly from new_role.base.level when going
> through shadow_mmu_init_context
>
> Remove the duplication and get the level directly from the role.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 1 -
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 33 ++++++++++++++-------------------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 2 +-
> 6 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

Yay! That's a lot less churn than I expected.

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>