On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 03:33:20PM +0000, Kalra, Ashish wrote:
> Yes we want to map the faulting address to a RMP entry, but hugepage
> entries in RMP table are basically subpage 4K entries. So it is a 4K
> entry when the page is a 2M one and also a 4K entry when the page is a
> 1G one.
Wait, what?!
APM v2 section "15.36.11 Large Page Management" and PSMASH are then for
what exactly?
> That's why the computation to get a 4K page index within a 2M/1G
> hugepage mapping is required.
What if a guest RMP-faults on a 2M page and there's a corresponding 2M
RMP entry? What do you need the 4K entry then for?
Hell, __snp_lookup_rmpentry() even tries to return the proper page
level...
/me looks in disbelief in your direction...
Thx.
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