Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Re-factor setting the Stage 2 entry to exec on fault

[Christoffer Dall]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 07:02:23PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/31/2018 11:27 PM, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> > Stage 2 fault handler marks a page as executable if it is handling an
> > execution fault or if it was a permission fault in which case the
> > executable bit needs to be preserved.
> > 
> > The logic to decide if the page should be marked executable is
> > duplicated for PMD and PTE entries. To avoid creating another copy
> > when support for PUD hugepages is introduced refactor the code to
> > share the checks needed to mark a page table entry as executable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > index 59595207c5e1..6912529946fb 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1475,7 +1475,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >  			  unsigned long fault_status)
> >  {
> >  	int ret;
> > -	bool write_fault, exec_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
> > +	bool write_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
> > +	bool exec_fault, needs_exec;
> 
> New line not required, still within 80 characters.
> 

He's trying to logically group the two variables.  I don't see a problem
with that.


Thanks,

    Christoffer