Re: [RFC PATCH v5 033/104] KVM: x86: Add infrastructure for stolen GPA bits

From: Kai Huang
Date: Wed Apr 06 2022 - 10:33:22 EST


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> > >
> > >
> > > - gfn = gpte_to_gfn(gpte);
> > > + gfn = gpte_to_gfn(vcpu, gpte);
> > > pte_access = sp->role.access;
> > > pte_access &= FNAME(gpte_access)(gpte);
> > > FNAME(protect_clean_gpte)(vcpu->arch.mmu, &pte_access, gpte);
> >
> > In commit message you mentioned "Don't support stolen bits for shadow EPT" (you
> > actually mean shadow MMU I suppose), yet there's bunch of code change to shadow
> > MMU.
>
> It's a bit ugly, but it's uglier to keep two versions of gpte_to_gfn.

gpte_to_gfn() is only used in paging_tmpl.h. Could you elaborate why we need to
keep two versions of it?


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Thanks,
-Kai