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    KVM: x86: Move shadow_phys_bits into "kvm_host", as "maxphyaddr" · 82897db9
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Move shadow_phys_bits into "struct kvm_host_values", i.e. into KVM's
    global "kvm_host" variable, so that it is automatically exported for use
    in vendor modules.  Rename the variable/field to maxphyaddr to more
    clearly capture what value it holds, now that it's used outside of the
    MMU (and because the "shadow" part is more than a bit misleading as the
    variable is not at all unique to shadow paging).
    
    Recomputing the raw/true host.MAXPHYADDR on every use can be subtly
    expensive, e.g. it will incur a VM-Exit on the CPUID if KVM is running as
    a nested hypervisor.  Vendor code already has access to the information,
    e.g. by directly doing CPUID or by invoking kvm_get_shadow_phys_bits(), so
    there's no tangible benefit to making it MMU-only.
    
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240423221521.2923759-5-seanjc@google.comSigned-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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