linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/12] KVM: selftests: Refactor generic nested mapping outside VMX code

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Message-ID: <CALMp9eQH1y1rfey6kCyOZs4uBmrRZKhEPLP50i22p5-Bhvxsow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:04:07 -0700
From: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>
To: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/12] KVM: selftests: Refactor generic nested mapping
 outside VMX code

On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 8:06 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> From: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@...gle.com>
>
> Now that the nested mapping functions in vmx.c are all generic except
> for nested_ept_create_pte(), move them all out into a new nested_map.c
> lib file and expose nested_ept_create_pte() in vmx.h. This allows
> reusing the code for NPT in following changes.
>
> While we're at it, merge nested_pg_map() and __nested_pg_map(), as the
> former is unused, and make sure all functions not exposed in the header
> are static.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>

Reviewed-by: Jim Mattson <jmattson@...gle.com>