linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86/mmu: avoid struct page in MMU

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Date:   Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:31:11 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     David Stevens <stevensd@...omium.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.qemu.devel@...il.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>,
        Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@...ux.intel.com>,
        Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@...el.com>
Cc:     James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@....com>,
        Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@...cent.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, intel-gvt-dev@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] KVM: x86/mmu: avoid struct page in MMU

On 24/06/21 05:57, David Stevens wrote:
>   static int __direct_map(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gpa_t gpa, u32 error_code,
> -			int map_writable, int max_level, kvm_pfn_t pfn,
> +			int map_writable, int max_level,
> +			const struct kvm_pfn_page *pfnpg,
>   			bool prefault, bool is_tdp)
>   {
>   	bool nx_huge_page_workaround_enabled = is_nx_huge_pa

So the main difference with my tentative patches is that here I was 
passing the struct by value.  I'll try to clean this up for 5.15, but 
for now it's all good like this.  Thanks again!

Paolo