Re: [PATCH] KVM: arm64: Update comment of create_hyp_mappings

From: 章瑋麟
Date: Wed Nov 16 2022 - 04:48:12 EST


On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 12:18 AM Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My problem with this comment is that neither va_mask, tag_val, nor
> tag_lsb mean anything in this context. All this is purely internal to
> kvm_compute_layout(), and is unnecessary here.
>
> I'd rather you have something along the lines of:
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> index 60ee3d9f01f8..6d04818a1a5b 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c
> @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ void kvm_unshare_hyp(void *from, void *to)
> * @prot: The protection to be applied to this range
> *
> * The same virtual address as the kernel virtual address is also used
> - * in Hyp-mode mapping (modulo HYP_PAGE_OFFSET) to the same underlying
> + * in Hyp-mode mapping (modulo a random offset) to the same underlying
> * physical pages.
> */
> int create_hyp_mappings(void *from, void *to, enum kvm_pgtable_prot prot)
>
> Whoever is interested in understanding the generation of the offset
> can follow kern_hyp_va().

Yes I agree, thanks for the advice.
I'll update the patch.

Wei-Lin Chang