linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] X86/nVMX: Update the PML table without mapping and unmapping the page

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Date:   Mon, 16 Apr 2018 13:10:56 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     KarimAllah Ahmed <karahmed@...zon.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        rkrcmar@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/12] X86/nVMX: Update the PML table without mapping
 and unmapping the page

On 15/04/2018 23:53, KarimAllah Ahmed wrote:
> +		dst = vmcs12->pml_address + sizeof(u64) * vmcs12->guest_pml_index;
>  
> -		page = kvm_vcpu_gpa_to_page(vcpu, vmcs12->pml_address);
> -		if (is_error_page(page))
> +		if (kvm_write_guest_page(vcpu->kvm, gpa_to_gfn(dst), &gpa,
> +					 offset_in_page(dst), sizeof(gpa)))

If you want to use kvm_write_guest_page, this can also be

		if (kvm_write_guest_page(vcpu->kvm,
					 gpa_to_gfn(vmcs12->pml_address), &gpa,
					 sizeof(gpa) * vmcs12->guest_pml_index,
					 sizeof(gpa)))

(I should have been more verbose on _why_ I suggested that function; my bad).

Paolo