Re: [RFC PATCH v5 037/104] KVM: x86/mmu: Allow non-zero init value for shadow PTE

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Tue Apr 05 2022 - 17:09:57 EST


On 3/4/22 20:48, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
static void mmu_spte_clear_no_track(u64 *sptep)
{
- __update_clear_spte_fast(sptep, 0ull);
+ __update_clear_spte_fast(sptep, shadow_init_value);
}

Please WARN_ON_ONCE if shadow_init_value is nonzero, and then keep 0ull as the argument.

I have not thought much of the steps that are needed if were to flip both bit 0 and bit 63, so let's at least document that with a WARN.

Otherwise,

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Paolo