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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: fix comment about {mmu,nested_mmu}.gva_to_gpa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 11:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <568E3812.6020804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1451492777-7454-1-git-send-email-dmatlack@google.com>



On 30/12/2015 17:26, David Matlack wrote:
> The comment had the meaning of mmu.gva_to_gpa and nested_mmu.gva_to_gpa
> swapped. Fix that, and also add some details describing how each translation
> works.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> index e7c2c14..098a9c2 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -4058,10 +4058,12 @@ static void init_kvm_nested_mmu(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
>  	g_context->inject_page_fault = kvm_inject_page_fault;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Note that arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa translates l2_gva to l1_gpa. The
> -	 * translation of l2_gpa to l1_gpa addresses is done using the
> -	 * arch.nested_mmu.gva_to_gpa function. Basically the gva_to_gpa
> -	 * functions between mmu and nested_mmu are swapped.
> +	 * Note that arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa translates l2_gpa to l1_gpa using
> +	 * L1's nested page tables (e.g. EPT12). The nested translation
> +	 * of l2_gva to l1_gpa is done by arch.nested_mmu.gva_to_gpa using
> +	 * L2's page tables as the first level of translation and L1's
> +	 * nested page tables as the second level of translation. Basically
> +	 * the gva_to_gpa functions between mmu and nested_mmu are swapped.
>  	 */
>  	if (!is_paging(vcpu)) {
>  		g_context->nx = false;
> 

Applied, thanks.

Paolo

      reply	other threads:[~2016-01-07 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-30 16:26 [PATCH] kvm: x86: fix comment about {mmu,nested_mmu}.gva_to_gpa David Matlack
2016-01-07 10:04 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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