On 28/04/20 02:54, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Drop KVM's PT_{PAGE_TABLE,DIRECTORY,PDPE}_LEVEL KVM enums in favor of the
> kernel's PG_LEVEL_{4K,2M,1G} enums, which have far more user friendly
> names.
>
> The KVM names were presumably intended to abstract away the page size. In
> practice, the abstraction is only useful for a single line of code, a PSE
> paging related large page check. For everything else, the abstract names
> do nothing but obfuscate the code.
>
> Boot tested a PSE kernel under 32-bit KVM and 64-bit KVM, with and without
> EPT enabled. Patches 2 and 3 generate no binary difference relative to
> patch 1 when compared via "objdump -d".
>
> Sean Christopherson (3):
> KVM: x86/mmu: Tweak PSE hugepage handling to avoid 2M vs 4M conundrum
> KVM: x86/mmu: Move max hugepage level to a separate #define
> KVM: x86/mmu: Drop KVM's hugepage enums in favor of the kernel's enums
>
> arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h | 13 +---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/mmu.c | 118 +++++++++++++++-----------------
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/page_track.c | 4 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu/paging_tmpl.h | 18 ++---
> arch/x86/kvm/mmu_audit.c | 6 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c | 2 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c | 6 +-
> arch/x86/kvm/x86.c | 4 +-
> 8 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>
Queued, thanks.
Paolo
