KVM: x86/mmu: Use MMU role to check for matching guest page sizes
Originally, __kvm_sync_page used to check the cr4_pae bit in the role to avoid zapping 4-byte kvm_mmu_pages when guest page size are 8-byte or the other way round. However, in commit 47c42e6b ("KVM: x86: fix handling of role.cr4_pae and rename it to 'gpte_size'", 2019-03-28) it was observed that this did not work for nested EPT, where the page table size would be 8 bytes even if CR4.PAE=0. (Note that the check still has to be done for nested *NPT*, so it is not possible to use tdp_enabled or similar). Therefore, a hack was introduced to identify nested EPT shadow pages and unconditionally call __kvm_sync_page() on them. However, it is possible to do without the hack to identify nested EPT shadow pages: if EPT is active, there will be no shadow pages in non-EPT format, and all of them will have gpte_is_8_bytes set to true; we can just check the MMU role directly, and the test will always be true. Even for non-EPT shadow MMUs, this test should really always be true now that __kvm_sync_page() is called if and only if the role is an exact match (kvm_mmu_get_page()) or is part of the current MMU context (kvm_mmu_sync_roots()). A future commit will convert the likely-pointless check into a meaningful WARN to enforce that the mmu_roles of the current context and the shadow page are compatible. Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210622175739.3610207-11-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment