On Fri, Feb 11, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 2/11/22 02:32, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > Maybe cached_root_find_and_rotate() or cached_root_find_and_age()? > > I'll go for cached_root_find_and_keep_current() and > cached_root_find_without_current(), respectively. > > > > > Hmm, while we're refactoring this, I'd really prefer we not grab vcpu->arch.mmu > > way down in the helpers. @vcpu is needed only for the request, so what about > > doing this? > > > > if (!fast_pgd_switch(vcpu, new_pgd, new_role)) { > > /* > > * <whatever kvm_mmu_reload() becomes> will set up a new root > > * prior to the next VM-Enter. Free the current root if it's > > * valid, i.e. if a valid root was evicted from the cache. > > */ > > if (VALID_PAGE(vcpu->arch.mmu->root.hpa)) > > kvm_mmu_free_roots(vcpu, vcpu->arch.mmu, KVM_MMU_ROOT_CURRENT); > > return; > > } > > I tried, but it's much easier to describe the cache functions if their > common postcondition is "vcpu->arch.mmu->root.hpa is never stale"; which > requires not a struct kvm_vcpu* but at least a struct kvm*, for the MMU > lock. > > I could change kvm_mmu_free_roots and cached_root_* to take a struct kvm* > plus a struct kvm_mmu*. Does that sound better? Ya, works for me, thanks!