Re: [PATCH v3 03/13] VMX: implement suppress #VE.

["Sahita, Ravi" <ravi.sahita@intel.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
>Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 12:40 AM
>
>>>> On 10.07.15 at 21:30, <ravi.sahita@intel.com> wrote:
>>> From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com]
>>>Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 6:01 AM
>>>>>> On 01.07.15 at 20:09, <edmund.h.white@intel.com> wrote:
>>>> @@ -232,6 +235,15 @@ static int ept_set_middle_entry(struct
>>>> p2m_domain @@ -1134,6 +1151,13 @@ int ept_p2m_init(struct
>p2m_domain *p2m)
>>>>          p2m->flush_hardware_cached_dirty = ept_flush_pml_buffers;
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>> +    table =
>>>> + map_domain_page(pagetable_get_pfn(p2m_get_pagetable(p2m)));
>>>> +
>>>> +    for ( i = 0; i < EPT_PAGETABLE_ENTRIES; i++ )
>>>> +        table[i].suppress_ve = 1;
>>>> +
>>>> +    unmap_domain_page(table);
>>>
>>>... why is this needed? Bit 63 is documented to be ignored in PML4Es
>>>(just
>> like
>>>in all other intermediate page tables).
>>
>> Valid point - this has no negative side-effects per se so we didn't
>> change this.
>
>Taking "we didn't change this" to refer to v3 -> v4, I still think this should be
>dropped if it isn't needed. There can only be confusion arising from code
>having no purpose.
>
>Jan

Done.

Ravi