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SubjectRe: [RFC 03/12] KVM/VMX: Use the new host mapping API for virtual_apic_page
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:48 AM KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@amazon.de> wrote:

> @@ -5264,9 +5264,8 @@ static void
vmx_complete_nested_posted_interrupt(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)

> max_irr = find_last_bit((unsigned long
*)vmx->nested.pi_desc->pir, 256);
> if (max_irr != 256) {
> - vapic_page = kmap(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page);
> + vapic_page = vmx->nested.virtual_apic_mapping.kaddr;
> __kvm_apic_update_irr(vmx->nested.pi_desc->pir,
vapic_page);
> - kunmap(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page);

Your kernel mapping now survives exits to userspace. I didn't think that
was kosher, but I'd be happy to hear that I'm wrong.

> @@ -7502,10 +7501,8 @@ static void free_nested(struct vcpu_vmx *vmx)
> /* Unpin physical memory we referred to in the vmcs02 */
> if (vmx->nested.apic_access_mapping.pfn)

kvm_release_host_mapping(&vmx->nested.apic_access_mapping, true);
> - if (vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page) {
> - kvm_release_page_dirty(vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page);
> - vmx->nested.virtual_apic_page = NULL;
> - }
> + if (vmx->nested.virtual_apic_mapping.pfn)
> +
kvm_release_host_mapping(&vmx->nested.virtual_apic_mapping, true);

Is the host PFN guaranteed to be non-zero?

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