Re: [PATCH v8 01/30] KVM: selftests: Add function to allow one-to-one GVA to GPA mappings

[Sagi Shahar]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2025, Sagi Shahar wrote:
> > From: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > One-to-one GVA to GPA mappings can be used in the guest to set up boot
> > sequences during which paging is enabled, hence requiring a transition
> > from using physical to virtual addresses in consecutive instructions.
>
> NAK, this is an extremely convoluted way for establishing mappings for hardcoded
> boot ranges.  Just use virt_map().  And if clobbering an existing mapping is a
> concern, we should add an assert in virt_map() to verify the address is available.

I'm able to replace this with virt_map() as you suggested. I'll drop
this patch in the next version.