Re: [RFC PATCH V3 2/4] KVM: X86: Introduce role.glevel for level expanded pagetable

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 4/13/22 17:32, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > Are we planning on removing direct?
> >
> > I think so, it's redundant and the code almost always checks
> > direct||passthrough (which would be passthrough_delta > 0 with your scheme).
>
> I'm ok dropping direct and rolling it into target_level, just so long as we add
> helpers, e.g. IIUC they would be
>
> static inline bool is_sp_direct(...)
> {
> 	return !sp->role.target_level;
> }
>
> static inline bool is_sp_direct_or_passthrough(...)
> {
> 	return sp->role.target_level != sp->role.level;
> }

Yes of course.  Or respectively:

	return sp->role.passthrough_levels == s->role.level;

	return sp->role.passthrough_levels > 0;

I'm not sure about a more concise name for the latter.  Maybe 
sp_has_gpt(...) but I haven't thought it through very much.

> > > Hmm, it's not a raw level though.
> >
> > Hence the plural. :)
>
> LOL, I honestly thought that was a typo.  Making it plural sounds like it's passing
> through to multiple levels.

I meant it as number of levels being passed through.  I'll leave that to 
Jiangshan, either target_level or passthrough_levels will do for me.

Paolo