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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove stale comment mentioning skip_4k
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 15:12:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YK5lVHARaeNfCJ5L@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210525223447.2724663-1-dmatlack@google.com>

On Tue, May 25, 2021, David Matlack wrote:
> This comment was left over from a previous version of the patch that
> introduced wrprot_gfn_range, when skip_4k was passed in instead of
> min_level.
> 
> Remove the comment (instead of fixing it) since wrprot_gfn_range has
> only one caller and min_level is documented there.

That would be ok-ish if there were no comment whatsoever, but the function comment
is now flat out wrong, which is bad.

> Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> index 95eeb5ac6a8a..97f273912764 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> @@ -1192,8 +1192,7 @@ bool kvm_tdp_mmu_set_spte_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
>  }
>  
>  /*
> - * Remove write access from all the SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end). If
> - * skip_4k is set, SPTEs that map 4k pages, will not be write-protected.
> + * Remove write access from all the SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end).

If the goal is to avoid churn on the last sentence, what about:

    * Write protect SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end) at or above min_level.

>   * Returns true if an SPTE has been changed and the TLBs need to be flushed.
>   */
>  static bool wrprot_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
> -- 
> 2.32.0.rc0.204.g9fa02ecfa5-goog
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-26 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-25 22:34 [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove stale comment mentioning skip_4k David Matlack
2021-05-26 15:12 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2021-05-26 16:23   ` David Matlack

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