Re: question about nested ntp

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Hi Gleb,

On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 09:26:11AM -0400, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> I have a question about nested ntp code. Comment in init_kvm_nested_mmu()
> function says "arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa translates l2_gva to l1_gpa". If
> I read the code correctly at the time of nested guest execution
> arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa() points to one of paging*_gva_to_gpa() variants. The
> function calls walk_addr() with provided address which should be
> l2_gva according to the comment.  Now when NPF happens while nested
> guest runs arch.mmu.page_fault() is called which translates to call
> to one of paging*_page_fault() variants.  paging*_page_fault() calls
> walk_addr() too, but now it gets l2_gpa as a parameter since during
> NPF svm->vmcb->control.exit_info_2 will not point to l2_gva, but l2_gpa
> instead. Do I miss something here?

No, the comment is wrong. The comment actually was right in -v1 of the
patch-series. But I changed that in -v2 and forgot the update/remove the
comment. Thanks for mentioning that :-)

	Joerg

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