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    KVM: x86/mmu: Document the "rules" for using host_pfn_mapping_level() · 65e3b446
    Sean Christopherson authored
    Add a comment to document how host_pfn_mapping_level() can be used safely,
    as the line between safe and dangerous is quite thin.  E.g. if KVM were
    to ever support in-place promotion to create huge pages, consuming the
    level is safe if the caller holds mmu_lock and checks that there's an
    existing _leaf_ SPTE, but unsafe if the caller only checks that there's a
    non-leaf SPTE.
    
    Opportunistically tweak the existing comments to explicitly document why
    KVM needs to use READ_ONCE().
    
    No functional change intended.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
    Message-Id: <20220715232107.3775620-3-seanjc@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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