Re: [PATCH v3 03/13] nEPT: Add EPT tables support to paging_tmpl.h

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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:05 AM, Xiao Guangrong
<xiaoguangrong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 05:01 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 04:30:13PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
>>>>> @@ -772,6 +810,7 @@ static gpa_t FNAME(gva_to_gpa_nested)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, gva_t vaddr,
>>>>>
>>>>>    return gpa;
>>>>>  }
>>>>> +#endif
>>>>
>>>> Strange!
>>>>
>>>> Why does nested ept not need these functions? How to emulate the instruction faulted on L2?
>>>
>>> Sorry, i misunderstood it. Have found the reason out.
>>>
>> You can write it down here for future reviewers :)
>
> Okay.
>
> The functions used to translate L2's gva to L1's gpa are paging32_gva_to_gpa_nested
> and paging64_gva_to_gpa_nested which are created by PTTYPE == 32 and PTTYPE == 64.
>
>

Back to your comments on PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS:
> +     #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> +     #define PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS 4
> +     #define CMPXCHG cmpxchg
> +     #else
> +     #define CMPXCHG cmpxchg64
> +    #define PT_MAX_FULL_LEVELS 2
I don't think we need to support nEPT on 32-bit hosts.  So, I plan to
remove such code. What do you think?

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