On 01/29/2013 08:21 AM, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 06:05:29PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote: >> In order to detecting spte remapping, we can simply check whether the >> spte has already been pointing to the pfn even if the spte is not the >> last spte, for middle spte is pointing to the kernel pfn which can not >> be mapped to userspace > > This check is detecting spte overwrite, when a large spte is replaced by > pointer to spte table. > > Can't see why check for different pfn is safe: only 'int level' can > differ, and pfn be equivalent, for example. The 'u64 *sptep' must on the "int level" we want to set, that means: page_header(__pa(sptep)).role.level == "int level". We discussed this before :), the discussion can be found at: http://marc.info/?l=kvm&m=135345057329427&w=2. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
