From: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
"kvm@vger.kernel.org" <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix a benign Bitwise vs. Logical OR mixup
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 08:37:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09ad7e0c69264929a5508eab8833abdc@huawei.com> (raw)
Hi:
>
>Use a Logical OR in __is_rsvd_bits_set() to combine the two reserved bit checks, which are obviously intended to be logical statements. Switching to a Logical OR is functionally a nop, but allows the compiler to better optimize the checks.
>
>Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
>---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c index 7269130ea5e2..72e845709027 100644
>--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
>+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
>@@ -3970,7 +3970,7 @@ __is_rsvd_bits_set(struct rsvd_bits_validate *rsvd_check, u64 pte, int level) {
> int bit7 = (pte >> 7) & 1, low6 = pte & 0x3f;
>
>- return (pte & rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[bit7][level-1]) |
>+ return (pte & rsvd_check->rsvd_bits_mask[bit7][level-1]) ||
> ((rsvd_check->bad_mt_xwr & (1ull << low6)) != 0); }
>
>--
>2.24.1
On the call chain walk_shadow_page_get_mmio_spte --> is_shadow_zero_bits_set --> __is_rsvd_bits_set, the
return value is used as:
reserved |= is_shadow_zero_bits_set(vcpu->arch.mmu, spte,
iterator.level);
But this seems ok because val reserved is bool type.
Thanks.
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2020-01-08 8:37 linmiaohe [this message]
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2020-01-08 0:18 [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Fix a benign Bitwise vs. Logical OR mixup Sean Christopherson
2020-01-08 10:13 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-01-08 17:50 ` Jim Mattson
2020-01-09 14:13 ` David Laight
2020-01-09 15:26 ` Arvind Sankar
2020-01-09 16:36 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-09 17:24 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-01-15 18:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
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