94c641ba7a
Replace impressively complex "logic" for computing the page offset from
CR3 when loading PDPTRs. Unlike other paging modes, the address held in
CR3 for PAE paging is 32-byte aligned, i.e. occupies bits 31:5, thus bits
11:5 need to be used as the offset from the gfn when reading PDPTRs.
The existing calculation originated in commit 1342d3536d6a ("[PATCH] KVM:
MMU: Load the pae pdptrs on cr3 change like the processor does"), which
read the PDPTRs from guest memory as individual 8-byte loads. At the
time, the so called "offset" was the base index of PDPTR0 as a _u64_, not
a byte offset. Naming aside, the computation was useful and arguably
simplified the overall flow.
Unfortunately, when commit 195aefde9cc2 ("KVM: Add general accessors to
read and write guest memory") added accessors with offsets at byte
granularity, the cleverness of the original code was lost and KVM was
left with convoluted code for a simple operation.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210831164224.1119728-4-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.