linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2] KVM: x86/mmu: replace BUG() with KVM

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Date:   Sun, 27 Nov 2022 15:47:57 -0800
From:   Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@...gle.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Nagareddy Reddy <nspreddy@...gle.com>,
        Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>,
        David Matlack <dmatlack@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2] KVM: x86/mmu: replace BUG() with KVM_BUG() in
 shadow mmu

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 5:17 PM Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> > v1 -> v2:
> >  - compile test the code.
> >  - fill KVM_BUG() with kvm_get_running_vcpu()->kvm
>
> Nope, the zapping code paths will run often with no running vCPU, for
> example drop_parent_pte <- kvm_mmu_unlink_parents <-
> __kvm_mmu_prepare_zap_page <- kvm_zap_obsolete_pages <-
> kvm_mmu_zap_all_fast <- kvm_mmu_invalidate_zap_pages_in_memslot <-
> kvm_page_track_flush_slot <- kvm_arch_flush_shadow_memslot <-
> kvm_invalidate_memslot <- ioctl(KVM_SET_USER_MEMORY_REGION).
>
> Paolo

Make sense. Will plumb through the kvm parameter in the next version.