linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Re-factor setting the Stage 2 entry to exec on fault

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:59:04 +0100
From:   Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
To:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>,
        kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu, suzuki.poulose@....com,
        marc.zyngier@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, punitagrawal@...il.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/8] KVM: arm/arm64: Re-factor setting the Stage 2
 entry to exec on fault

On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 07:02:23PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/31/2018 11:27 PM, Punit Agrawal wrote:
> > Stage 2 fault handler marks a page as executable if it is handling an
> > execution fault or if it was a permission fault in which case the
> > executable bit needs to be preserved.
> > 
> > The logic to decide if the page should be marked executable is
> > duplicated for PMD and PTE entries. To avoid creating another copy
> > when support for PUD hugepages is introduced refactor the code to
> > share the checks needed to mark a page table entry as executable.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
> > Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>
> > Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@....com>
> > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> > ---
> >  virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c | 28 +++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > index 59595207c5e1..6912529946fb 100644
> > --- a/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > +++ b/virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c
> > @@ -1475,7 +1475,8 @@ static int user_mem_abort(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, phys_addr_t fault_ipa,
> >  			  unsigned long fault_status)
> >  {
> >  	int ret;
> > -	bool write_fault, exec_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
> > +	bool write_fault, writable, force_pte = false;
> > +	bool exec_fault, needs_exec;
> 
> New line not required, still within 80 characters.
> 

He's trying to logically group the two variables.  I don't see a problem
with that.


Thanks,

    Christoffer