Re: [RFC PATCH 00/37] KVM: Refactor the KVM/x86 TDP MMU into common code

Paolo Bonzini
2022-12-12T23:43:41Z

On 12/13/22 00:26, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>>> I would strongly be in favor of discarding the shadow paging residue if
>>> x86 folks are willing to part ways with it 😄
>> Yes, absolutely. Something like to_shadow_page->to_mmu_data, sp->md,
>> spt->hpt, spte->spte, sptep->hptep.
> "host" will be confusing if when the primary MMU is involved though, e.g. I always
> think of the primary MMU's page tables as the "host page tables".
>
> What if we keep the "S" for SPT(E) and repurpose it to mean Secondary PTE?

Makes sense, so just to_shadow_page->to_secmmu_page?

Paolo