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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] KVM: x86: TDP level cleanups and shadow NPT fix
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:18:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6249777c-8adb-51ca-2d40-4b9a7583b41f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200716034122.5998-1-sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>

On 16/07/20 05:41, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> The primary purpose of this series is to implement a suggestion from Paolo
> to have the MMU make the decision between 4 and 5 level EPT/TDP (when
> 5-level page tables are supported).  Having the MMU "own" the decision of
> whether or not to use 5-level paging leads to a variety of nice cleanups,
> and ultimately gets rid of another kvm_x86_ops.
> 
> Patch 1 is a fix for SVM's shadow NPT that is compile tested only.  I
> don't know enough about the shadow NPT details to know if it's a "real"
> bug or just a supericial oddity that can't actually cause problems.
> 
> "Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level mismatch" could
> easily be squashed with "Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of
> recalculating it", I threw it in as a separate patch to provide a
> bisection helper in case things go sideways.
> 
> Sean Christopherson (9):
>   KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Add separate helper for shadow NPT root page role calc
>   KVM: VMX: Drop a duplicate declaration of construct_eptp()
>   KVM: VMX: Make vmx_load_mmu_pgd() static
>   KVM: x86: Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of recalculating
>     it
>   KVM: VXM: Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level
>     mismatch
>   KVM: x86: Dynamically calculate TDP level from max level and
>     MAXPHYADDR
>   KVM: x86/mmu: Rename max_page_level to max_huge_page_level
>   KVM: x86: Specify max TDP level via kvm_configure_mmu()
> 
>  arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  9 ++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c            |  2 --
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.h              | 10 ++++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c          | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/nested.c       |  1 -
>  arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          |  8 ++---
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c       |  2 +-
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 31 +++++++---------
>  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.h          |  6 ++--
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              |  1 -
>  10 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> 

Queued, thanks.

Paolo


      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-30 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-16  3:41 [PATCH 0/9] KVM: x86: TDP level cleanups and shadow NPT fix Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] KVM: nSVM: Correctly set the shadow NPT root level in its MMU role Sean Christopherson
2020-07-22 17:02   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] KVM: x86/mmu: Add separate helper for shadow NPT root page role calc Sean Christopherson
2020-07-22 17:05   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 3/9] KVM: VMX: Drop a duplicate declaration of construct_eptp() Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] KVM: VMX: Make vmx_load_mmu_pgd() static Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] KVM: x86: Pull the PGD's level from the MMU instead of recalculating it Sean Christopherson
2020-07-22 17:11   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-07-31 16:14     ` Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] KVM: VXM: Remove temporary WARN on expected vs. actual EPTP level mismatch Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] KVM: x86: Dynamically calculate TDP level from max level and MAXPHYADDR Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] KVM: x86/mmu: Rename max_page_level to max_huge_page_level Sean Christopherson
2020-07-16  3:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] KVM: x86: Specify max TDP level via kvm_configure_mmu() Sean Christopherson
2020-07-30 22:18 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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