Re: [PATCH] KVM: x86/mmu: Remove stale comment mentioning skip_4k

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On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 8:12 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 25, 2021, David Matlack wrote:
> > This comment was left over from a previous version of the patch that
> > introduced wrprot_gfn_range, when skip_4k was passed in instead of
> > min_level.
> >
> > Remove the comment (instead of fixing it) since wrprot_gfn_range has
> > only one caller and min_level is documented there.
>
> That would be ok-ish if there were no comment whatsoever, but the function comment
> is now flat out wrong, which is bad.

You're right!

>
> > Signed-off-by: David Matlack <dmatlack@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> > index 95eeb5ac6a8a..97f273912764 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu/tdp_mmu.c
> > @@ -1192,8 +1192,7 @@ bool kvm_tdp_mmu_set_spte_gfn(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_gfn_range *range)
> >  }
> >
> >  /*
> > - * Remove write access from all the SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end). If
> > - * skip_4k is set, SPTEs that map 4k pages, will not be write-protected.
> > + * Remove write access from all the SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end).
>
> If the goal is to avoid churn on the last sentence, what about:
>
>     * Write protect SPTEs mapping GFNs [start, end) at or above min_level.

Thanks. Will send another patch fixing the comment.

>
> >   * Returns true if an SPTE has been changed and the TLBs need to be flushed.
> >   */
> >  static bool wrprot_gfn_range(struct kvm *kvm, struct kvm_mmu_page *root,
> > --
> > 2.32.0.rc0.204.g9fa02ecfa5-goog
> >



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