linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86/mmu: Fully re-evaluate MMIO caching when SPTE masks change

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Date:   Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:05:51 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     Kai Huang <kai.huang@...el.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michael Roth <michael.roth@....com>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: x86/mmu: Fully re-evaluate MMIO caching when
 SPTE masks change

On Wed, Aug 03, 2022, Kai Huang wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-08-02 at 21:15 +0000, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > But we are not checking any of those in kvm_mmu_set_mmio_spte_mask(), right? :)
> > 
> > No, but we really should.
> 
> I can come up a patch if you are not planning to do so?

Hmm, I'll throw one together, it's simple enough (famous last words) and it'll
need to be tested on AMD as well.