Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] KVM: MMU: combine guest pte read between walkand pte prefetch

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Sat Jul 03 2010 - 08:36:01 EST




Avi Kivity wrote:

>>
>
> if (!direct) {
> r = kvm_read_guest_atomic(vcpu->kvm,
> gw->pte_gpa[level - 2],
> &curr_pte, sizeof(curr_pte));
> if (r || curr_pte != gw->ptes[level - 2]) {
> kvm_mmu_put_page(shadow_page, sptep);
> kvm_release_pfn_clean(pfn);
> sptep = NULL;
> break;
> }
> }
>
> the code you moved... under what scenario is it not sufficient?
>

I not move those code, just use common function instead, that it's
FNAME(check_level_mapping)(), there are do the same work.

And this check is not sufficient, since it's only checked if the
mapping is zapped or not exist, for other words only when broken this
judgment:
is_shadow_present_pte(*sptep) && !is_large_pte(*sptep)

but if the middle level is present and it's not the large mapping,
this check is skipped.


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