linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/11] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:10:33 +0800
From:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] KVM: MMU: fix detecting misaligned accessed

On 07/27/2011 05:15 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 02:31 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>> Sometimes, we only modify the last one byte of a pte to update status bit,
>> for example, clear_bit is used to clear r/w bit in linux kernel and 'andb'
>> instruction is used in this function, in this case, kvm_mmu_pte_write will
>> treat it as misaligned access, and the shadow page table is zapped
>>
>> @@ -3597,6 +3597,14 @@ static bool detect_write_misaligned(struct kvm_mmu_page *sp, gpa_t gpa,
>>
>>       offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
>>       pte_size = sp->role.cr4_pae ? 8 : 4;
>> +
>> +    /*
>> +     * Sometimes, the OS only writes the last one bytes to update status
>> +     * bits, for example, in linux, andb instruction is used in clear_bit().
>> +     */
>> +    if (sp->role.level == 1&&  !(offset&  (pte_size - 1))&&  bytes == 1)
>> +        return false;
>> +
> 
> Could be true for level > 1, no?
> 

In my origin mind, i thought one-byte-instruction is usually used to update the last pte,
but we do better remove this restriction. Will fix it in the next version, thanks!
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