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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
	Yulei Zhang <yulei.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>,
	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong.eric@gmail.com>,
	Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com>,
	Keqian Zhu <zhukeqian1@huawei.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 11/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:14:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YZaYBUkNgnaiFEtQ@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12a5ad9a-c1c5-852c-5041-096d2c518f8c@redhat.com>

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/18/21 19:02, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > > but that's not a great name because the former is used also when shadowing
> > > EPT/NPT.  I'm thinking of standardizing on "shadow" and "TDP" (it's not
> > > perfect because of the 32-bit and tdp_mmu=0 cases, but it's a start).  Maybe
> > > even split parts of mmu.c out into shadow_mmu.c.
> > But shadow is flat out wrong until EPT and NPT support is ripped out of the "legacy"
> > MMU.
> 
> Yeah, that's true.  "full" MMU? :)

Or we could just rip out non-nested TDP support from the legacy MMU and call it
the shadow MMU :-)

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-18 18:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-10 22:29 [RFC 00/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Optimize disabling dirty logging Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 01/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix TLB flush range when handling disconnected pt Ben Gardon
2021-11-11 17:44   ` David Matlack
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 02/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Batch TLB flushes for a single zap Ben Gardon
2021-11-11 18:06   ` David Matlack
2021-11-12 23:53   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 03/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor flush and free up when zapping under MMU write lock Ben Gardon
2021-11-11 18:31   ` David Matlack
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 04/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Yield while processing disconnected_sps Ben Gardon
2021-11-11 18:50   ` David Matlack
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 05/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove redundant flushes when disabling dirty logging Ben Gardon
2021-11-11 18:55   ` David Matlack
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 06/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Introduce vcpu_make_spte Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 07/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor wrprot for nested PML out of make_spte Ben Gardon
2021-11-18  2:12   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-18 17:43     ` Ben Gardon
2021-11-18 18:04       ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-10 22:29 ` [RFC 08/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor mt_mask " Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 09/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove need for a vcpu from kvm_slot_page_track_is_active Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 10/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove need for a vcpu from mmu_try_to_unsync_pages Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 11/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:44   ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-10 23:49     ` Ben Gardon
2021-11-11  1:18       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-11  1:44         ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-11  7:06         ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-18  2:05   ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-18  3:29     ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-18 16:37       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-18 17:19         ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-18 18:02           ` Sean Christopherson
2021-11-18 18:07             ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-11-18 18:14               ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 12/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Replace vcpu argument with kvm pointer in make_spte Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 13/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out the meat of reset_tdp_shadow_zero_bits_mask Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 14/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Propagate memslot const qualifier Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 15/19] KVM: x86/MMU: Refactor vmx_get_mt_mask Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 16/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor out part of vmx_get_mt_mask which does not depend on vcpu Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 17/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Add try_get_mt_mask to x86_ops Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 18/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Make kvm_is_mmio_pfn usable outside of spte.c Ben Gardon
2021-11-10 22:30 ` [RFC 19/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Promote pages in-place when disabling dirty logging Ben Gardon
2021-11-15 21:24 ` [RFC 00/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Optimize " Ben Gardon

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