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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 5/8] KVM: x86/mmu: Set disallowed_nx_huge_page in TDP MMU before setting SPTE
On 8/9/22 05:26, Yan Zhao wrote:
> hi Sean,
>
> I understand this smp_rmb() is intended to prevent the reading of
> p->nx_huge_page_disallowed from happening before it's set to true in
> kvm_tdp_mmu_map(). Is this understanding right?
>
> If it's true, then do we also need the smp_rmb() for read of sp->gfn in
> handle_removed_pt()? (or maybe for other fields in sp in other places?)

No, in that case the barrier is provided by rcu_dereference(). In fact,
I am not sure the barriers are needed in this patch either (but the
comments are :)):

- the write barrier is certainly not needed because it is implicit in
tdp_mmu_set_spte_atomic's cmpxchg64

- the read barrier _should_ also be provided by rcu_dereference(pt), but
I'm not 100% sure about that. The reasoning is that you have

(1) iter->old spte = READ_ONCE(*rcu_dereference(iter->sptep));
...
(2) tdp_ptep_t pt = spte_to_child_pt(old_spte, level);
(3) struct kvm_mmu_page *sp = sptep_to_sp(rcu_dereference(pt));
...
(4) if (sp->nx_huge_page_disallowed) {

and (4) is definitely ordered after (1) thanks to the READ_ONCE hidden
within (3) and the data dependency from old_spte to sp.

Paolo

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