Re: [PATCH 1/9] KVM: arm64: Add KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_REMOVED into ctx->flags

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On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 7:50 PM Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add a flag to kvm_pgtable_visit_ctx, KVM_PGTABLE_WALK_REMOVED, to
> indicate that the walk is on a removed table not accesible to the HW
> page-table walker. Then use it to avoid doing break-before-make or
> performing CMOs (Cache Maintenance Operations) when mapping a removed

Nit: Should this say unmapping? Or are we actually going to use this
to map memory ?

> table. This is safe as these removed tables are not visible to the HW
> page-table walker. This will be used in a subsequent commit for
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