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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] KVM/nVMX: Use kvm_vcpu_map when mapping the
 virtual APIC page
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:57:42 -0700
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 04:38:39PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 21/02/2018 18:47, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> > +
> > +		if (kvm_vcpu_map(vcpu, gpa_to_gfn(vmcs12->virtual_apic_page_addr), map))
> > +			vmcs_write64(VIRTUAL_APIC_PAGE_ADDR, gfn_to_gpa(map->pfn));
> 
> This should in principle be pfn_to_hpa.  However, pfn_to_hpa is unused;
> let's just remove it and do "<< PAGE_SHIFT".  Unlike gfn_to_gpa, where
> in principle the shift could be different, pfn_to_hpa is *by definition*
> a shift left by PAGE_SHIFT.

Any reason not to use PFN_PHYS instead of the handcoded shift?
 
> Paolo