From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Yang, Sheng" <sheng.yang@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add ept_sync_context in flush_tlb
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:55:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4870B2BB.1090401@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807061920.02935.sheng.yang@intel.com>
Yang, Sheng wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 18:09:20 Avi Kivity wrote:
>
>> I see. Back to the patch, can't you replace vmx->eptp by
>> construct_eptp(vcpu->arch.mmu.root_hpa)?
>>
>
> Modified follow Avi's advice. Sorry for miss the mail...
>
> From 251b611f7e90833aa07184e69ffe133fbcd83c76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Sheng Yang <sheng.yang@intel.com>
> Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:16:51 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add ept_sync_context in flush_tlb
>
> Fix a potention issue caused by kvm_mmu_slot_remove_write_access().
> The
> old behavior don't sync EPT TLB with modified EPT entry, which result
> in inconsistent content of EPT TLB and EPT table.
>
>
Applied, thanks.
> +static u64 construct_eptp(unsigned long root_hpa)
> +{
> + u64 eptp;
> +
> + /* TODO write the value reading from MSR */
> + eptp = VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT |
> + VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_GAW << VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT;
> + eptp |= (root_hpa & PAGE_MASK);
> +
> + return eptp;
> +}
> +
> -static u64 construct_eptp(unsigned long root_hpa)
> -{
> - u64 eptp;
> -
> - /* TODO write the value reading from MSR */
> - eptp = VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_MT |
> - VMX_EPT_DEFAULT_GAW << VMX_EPT_GAW_EPTP_SHIFT;
> - eptp |= (root_hpa & PAGE_MASK);
> -
> - return eptp;
> -}
> -
>
I added a forward declaration rather than move the code to make it clear
there are no changes here.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-06 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 3:38 [PATCH] KVM: VMX: Add ept_sync_context in flush_tlb Yang, Sheng
2008-06-25 12:02 ` Avi Kivity
2008-06-26 0:47 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-06-29 10:09 ` Avi Kivity
2008-07-06 11:20 ` Yang, Sheng
2008-07-06 11:55 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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