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SubjectRe: [RFC 11/19] KVM: x86/mmu: Factor shadow_zero_check out of make_spte
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On 11/18/21 17:37, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>> It's a bit ugly in that we'd pass both @kvm and @vcpu, so that needs some more
>> thought, but at minimum it means there's no need to recalc the reserved bits.
>
> Ok, I think my final vote is to have the reserved bits passed in, but with the
> non-nested TDP reserved bits being computed at MMU init.

Yes, and that's also where I was getting with the idea of moving part of
the "direct" MMU (man, naming these things is so hard) to struct kvm:
split the per-vCPU state from the constant one and initialize the latter
just once. Though perhaps I was putting the cart slightly before the horse.

On the topic of naming, we have a lot of things to name:

- the two MMU codebases: you Googlers are trying to grandfather "legacy"
and "TDP" into upstream, 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.

- the two walkers (I'm quite convinced of splitting that part out of
struct kvm_mmu and getting rid of walk_mmu/nested_mmu): that's easy, it
can be walk01 and walk12 with "walk" pointing to one of them

- the two MMUs: with nested_mmu gone, root_mmu and guest_mmu are much
less confusing and we can keep those names.

Paolo

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