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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com,
	bp@alien8.de, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com, x86@kernel.org,
	hpa@zytor.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: use helper macro SPTE_ENT_PER_PAGE
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2022 23:17:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yz4Qi7cn7TWTWQjj@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220913085452.25561-1-linmiaohe@huawei.com>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022, Miaohe Lin wrote:
> Use helper macro SPTE_ENT_PER_PAGE to get the number of spte entries
> per page. Minor readability improvement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.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 858bc53cfab4..45c532d00f78 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c
> @@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ static int is_empty_shadow_page(u64 *spt)
>  	u64 *pos;
>  	u64 *end;
>  
> -	for (pos = spt, end = pos + PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(u64); pos != end; pos++)
> +	for (pos = spt, end = pos + SPTE_ENT_PER_PAGE; pos != end; pos++)

This is buried under MMU_DEBUG, and turning that on to compile test, which requires
manually changing kernel code to enable, results in some minor warnings.  Given the
existence of CONFIG_KVM_WERROR=y, I think it's safe to say this code hasn't been
exercised in a very long time.  E.g. this is literally the first time I've actually
enabled MMU_DEBUG.

This particular check seems like it would be quite useful, but the pgprintk() and
rmap_printk() hooks, not so much.  E.g. the knob is too coarse grained, and many
of the prints now have tracepoints.

So, unless someone actually actively uses MMU_DEBUG+dbg, I'm inclined to just delete
pgprintk() and rmap_printk(), and then rename MMU_WARN_ON => KVM_MMU_WARN_ON and
add a Kconfig for that, e.g. CONFIG_KVM_PROVE_MMU.

Hmm, and maybe clean up this helper too, e.g. get rid of the pointer arithmetic,
and take the full kvm_mmu_page so that the error message can print out things like
the gfn (a host kernel pointer is going to be useless for debug).

Thoughts?  Objections?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-05 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-13  8:54 [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: use helper macro SPTE_ENT_PER_PAGE Miaohe Lin
2022-10-05 23:17 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-10-15  2:39   ` Miaohe Lin
2022-10-22  8:43 ` Paolo Bonzini

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