Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v5 0/8] Move npt test cases and NPT code improvements

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On 7/22/2022 12:45 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022, Manali Shukla wrote:
>> If __setup_vm() is changed to setup_vm(), KUT will build tests with PT_USER_MASK
>> set on all PTEs. It is a better idea to move nNPT tests to their own file so
>> that tests don't need to fiddle with page tables midway.
>>
>> The quick approach to do this would be to turn the current main into a small
>> helper, without calling __setup_vm() from helper.
>>
>> setup_mmu_range() function in vm.c was modified to allocate new user pages to
>> implement nested page table.
>>
>> Current implementation of nested page table does the page table build up
>> statically with 2048 PTEs and one pml4 entry. With newly implemented routine,
>> nested page table can be implemented dynamically based on the RAM size of VM
>> which enables us to have separate memory ranges to test various npt test cases.
>>
>> Based on this implementation, minimal changes were required to be done in
>> below mentioned existing APIs:
>> npt_get_pde(), npt_get_pte(), npt_get_pdpe().
> 
> I have a variety of nits and minor complaints, but no need to send another version,
> I'll fix things up as I go.  I'm going to send Paolo a pull request for KUT, there's
> a big pile of outstanding changes that have been languishing.

Sure Sean,
Thank you for the review.

-Manali



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