Commit 39944ab9 authored by Sean Christopherson's avatar Sean Christopherson Committed by Paolo Bonzini

KVM: x86/mmu: Expand quadrant comment for PG_LEVEL_4K shadow pages

Tweak the comment above the computation of the quadrant for PG_LEVEL_4K
shadow pages to explicitly call out how and why KVM uses role.quadrant to
consume gPTE bits.

Opportunistically wrap an unnecessarily long line.

No functional change intended.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YqvWvBv27fYzOFdE@google.comReviewed-by: default avatarDavid Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220712020724.1262121-3-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 79e48cec
......@@ -2168,7 +2168,8 @@ static struct kvm_mmu_page *kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
return __kvm_mmu_get_shadow_page(vcpu->kvm, vcpu, &caches, gfn, role);
}
static union kvm_mmu_page_role kvm_mmu_child_role(u64 *sptep, bool direct, unsigned int access)
static union kvm_mmu_page_role kvm_mmu_child_role(u64 *sptep, bool direct,
unsigned int access)
{
struct kvm_mmu_page *parent_sp = sptep_to_sp(sptep);
union kvm_mmu_page_role role;
......@@ -2195,9 +2196,15 @@ static union kvm_mmu_page_role kvm_mmu_child_role(u64 *sptep, bool direct, unsig
* uses 2 PAE page tables, each mapping a 2MiB region. For these,
* @role.quadrant encodes which half of the region they map.
*
* Note, the 4 PAE page directories are pre-allocated and the quadrant
* assigned in mmu_alloc_root(). So only page tables need to be handled
* here.
* Concretely, a 4-byte PDE consumes bits 31:22, while an 8-byte PDE
* consumes bits 29:21. To consume bits 31:30, KVM's uses 4 shadow
* PDPTEs; those 4 PAE page directories are pre-allocated and their
* quadrant is assigned in mmu_alloc_root(). A 4-byte PTE consumes
* bits 21:12, while an 8-byte PTE consumes bits 20:12. To consume
* bit 21 in the PTE (the child here), KVM propagates that bit to the
* quadrant, i.e. sets quadrant to '0' or '1'. The parent 8-byte PDE
* covers bit 21 (see above), thus the quadrant is calculated from the
* _least_ significant bit of the PDE index.
*/
if (role.has_4_byte_gpte) {
WARN_ON_ONCE(role.level != PG_LEVEL_4K);
......
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