linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] nSVM: introduce struct vmcb_ctrl_area

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Date:   Tue, 28 Sep 2021 18:14:49 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@...hat.com>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@...hat.com>,
        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>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] nSVM: introduce struct vmcb_ctrl_area_cached

On 17/09/21 14:49, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> +static inline bool vmcb_is_intercept_cached(struct vmcb_ctrl_area_cached *control, u32 bit)
> +{
> +	return vmcb_is_intercept((struct vmcb_control_area *) control,
> +				 bit);
> +}
> +

This is quite dangerous, because it expects that the offset is the same 
between vmcb_control_area and vmcb_ctrl_area_cached.  You can just 
duplicate the implementation (which is essentially just a test_bit), and 
call the function

static inline bool vmcb12_is_intercept(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u32 bit)

Likewise, nested_vmcb_check_controls can just take the vcpu since you 
moved nested_load_control_from_vmcb12 earlier.

Finally, copy_vmcb_control_area can be inlined, and its caller 
nested_load_control_from_vmcb12 can stop copying the ASID.  There is 
only one call to it since commit 4995a3685f1b ("KVM: SVM: Use a separate 
vmcb for the nested L2 guest", 2021-03-15).

Thanks,

Paolo