Re: [PATCH v10 034/108] KVM: x86/mmu: Add Suppress VE bit to shadow_mmio_{value, mask}

[Isaku Yamahata]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 11:48:30AM +0000,
"Huang, Kai" <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2022-10-29 at 23:22 -0700, isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Because TDX will need shadow_mmio_mask to be VMX_SUPPRESS_VE | RWX	
> > shadow_mmio_value to be 0, make VMX EPT case use same value for TDX
> > shadow_mmio_mask.  
> > 
> 
> TDX need to use different mmio_mask/value doesn't mean they need to be changed
> for VMX guest.  I think the true purpose here is to still be able to use a
> global shadow_mmio_mask for both TDX and VMX guests.  So please explicitly call
> out.  

That's right. With this change, per-VM shadow_mmio_{value, mask} can be avoided.
The common value can be used for both VMX and TDX.
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Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@xxxxxxxxx>