linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Slightly simplify memstress_setup

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Message-ID: <176849723890.705555.5039008421742485282.b4-ty@google.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:03:30 -0800
From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>, Yosry Ahmed <yosry.ahmed@...ux.dev>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: selftests: Slightly simplify memstress_setup_nested()

On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:14:56 +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Instead of calling memstress_setup_ept_mappings() only in the first
> iteration in the loop, move it before the loop.
> 
> The call needed to happen within the loop before commit e40e72fec0de
> ("KVM: selftests: Stop passing VMX metadata to TDP mapping functions"),
> as memstress_setup_ept_mappings() used to take in a pointer to vmx_pages
> and pass it into tdp_identity_map_1g() (to get the EPT root GPA). This
> is no longer the case, as tdp_identity_map_1g() gets the EPT root
> through stage2 MMU.
> 
> [...]

Applied to kvm-x86 selftests, thanks!

[1/1] KVM: selftests: Slightly simplify memstress_setup_nested()
      https://github.com/kvm-x86/linux/commit/f756ed82c62a

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