linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/7] KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest page table

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:00:58 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, KVM <kvm@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] KVM: MMU: cleanup for error mask set while walk guest
 page table

  On 09/28/2010 10:58 AM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> Yeah, it's a good idea, i'll post a patch to do it.
>
> >  Not sure how that interacts with nested
> >  ept (which has a different permission model).
> >
>
> Umm, we just move the error code parsing from the caller site to FNAME(walk_addr)
> function, i think it not make trouble for implement nested ept.

It means the nept code will have to take the ept error code and convert 
it to the standard error code.  Not too difficult.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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