Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86: Initialize tdp_level during vCPU creation

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 22:27:33 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 06:56:02PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 27/05/20 18:23, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > Hmm, one option would be to make .get_tdp_level() pure function by passing
> > in vcpu->arch.maxphyaddr. That should make the comment redundant. I don't
> > love bleeding VMX's implementation into the prototype, but that ship has
> > kinda already sailed.
>
> Well, it's not bleeding the implementation that much, guest MAXPHYADDR
> is pretty much the only reason why it's a function and not a constant.
>
> Another possibility BTW is to make the callback get_max_tdp_level and
> make get_tdp_level a function in mmu.c.

I like that idea. We could even avoid get_max_tdp_level() by passing that
info into kvm_configure_mmu(), though that may not actually be cleaner.
I'll play around with it.