Re: [PATCH v3 13/15] KVM: MMU: locklessly write-protect the page

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On 10/24/2013 05:17 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:

>>  
>> -/**
>> - * kvm_mmu_write_protect_pt_masked - write protect selected PT level pages
>> +static void __rmap_write_protect_lockless(u64 *sptep)
>> +{
>> +	u64 spte;
>> +
>> +retry:
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Note we may partly read the sptep on 32bit host, however, we
>> +	 * allow this case because:
>> +	 * - we do not access the page got from the sptep.
>> +	 * - cmpxchg64 can detect that case and avoid setting a wrong value
>> +	 *   to the sptep.
>> +	 */
>> +	spte = *rcu_dereference(sptep);
>> +	if (unlikely(!is_last_spte(spte) || !is_writable_pte(spte)))
> is_last_spte gets two parameters.

In patch [PATCH v3 12/15] KVM: MMU: check last spte with unawareness of mapping level,
we have removed the 'level' from the parameter list.

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