Re: [PATCH 13/21] KVM: x86/mmu: Pass around full 64-bit error code for KVM page faults

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Apr 05 2024 - 13:58:24 EST


On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 9:57 AM Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/28/2024 7:20 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> ...
> > The use of lower_32_bits() moves from kvm_mmu_page_fault() to
> > FNAME(page_fault), since walking is independent of the data in the
> > upper bits of the error code.
>
> Is it a must? I don't see any issue if full u64 error_code is passed to
> FNAME(page_fault) as well.

The full error code *is* passed to kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() and
FNAME(page_fault), it's only dropped when passed to FNAME(walk_addr).

Paolo