linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] KVM: do not bias the generation number in kvm_current_mmio

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Message-Id: <1409308277-4021-2-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2014 12:31:15 +0200
From:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] KVM: do not bias the generation number in kvm_current_mmio_generation

The next patch will give a meaning (a la seqcount) to the low bit of the
generation number.  Ensure that it matches between kvm->memslots->generation
and kvm_current_mmio_generation().

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c  | 7 +------
 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 931467881da7..323c3f5f5c84 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -236,12 +236,7 @@ static unsigned int get_mmio_spte_generation(u64 spte)
 
 static unsigned int kvm_current_mmio_generation(struct kvm *kvm)
 {
-	/*
-	 * Init kvm generation close to MMIO_MAX_GEN to easily test the
-	 * code of handling generation number wrap-around.
-	 */
-	return (kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation +
-		      MMIO_MAX_GEN - 150) & MMIO_GEN_MASK;
+	return kvm_memslots(kvm)->generation & MMIO_GEN_MASK;
 }
 
 static void mark_mmio_spte(struct kvm *kvm, u64 *sptep, u64 gfn,
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 7176929a4cda..0bfdb673db26 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -477,6 +477,13 @@ static struct kvm *kvm_create_vm(unsigned long type)
 	kvm->memslots = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm_memslots), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!kvm->memslots)
 		goto out_err_no_srcu;
+
+	/*
+	 * Init kvm generation close to the maximum to easily test the
+	 * code of handling generation number wrap-around.
+	 */
+	kvm->memslots->generation = -150;
+
 	kvm_init_memslots_id(kvm);
 	if (init_srcu_struct(&kvm->srcu))
 		goto out_err_no_srcu;
-- 
1.8.3.1


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