linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/23] KVM: MMU: pass uses_nx directly to reset_shadow_zero_bits

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Date:   Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:19 +0100
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        vkuznets@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/23] KVM: MMU: pass uses_nx directly to
 reset_shadow_zero_bits_mask

On 2/10/22 01:30, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> There may not be a functional change, but it drops an optimization and contributes
> to making future code/patches more fragile due to making it harder to understand
> the relationship between shadow_mmu_init_context() and __kvm_mmu_new_pgd().

Fair enough, I'll drop this patch.

Regarding the relationship between shadow_mmu_init_context() and 
kvm_mmu_new_pgd(), it's a lot more subtle than it looks.  Please take a 
look first at the optimization series, since it removes that subtlety.

Paolo