Re: [PATCH 2/7] KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guestpage table

From: Xiao Guangrong
Date: Tue Sep 28 2010 - 04:53:40 EST


On 09/27/2010 10:30 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:

>> r = FNAME(walk_addr)(&walker, vcpu, vaddr,
>> - !!(access& PFERR_WRITE_MASK),
>> - !!(access& PFERR_USER_MASK),
>> - !!(access& PFERR_FETCH_MASK));
>> + access& PFERR_WRITE_MASK,
>> + access& PFERR_USER_MASK,
>> + access& PFERR_FETCH_MASK);
>>
>> if (r) {
>> gpa = gfn_to_gpa(walker.gfn);
>
> Interesting. Maybe a next step is to pass the page-fault error code
> instead of the various bits?

Yeah, it's a good idea, i'll post a patch to do it.

> Not sure how that interacts with nested
> ept (which has a different permission model).
>

Umm, we just move the error code parsing from the caller site to FNAME(walk_addr)
function, i think it not make trouble for implement nested ept.
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