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Retrieve the active PCID only when writing a guest CR3 value, i.e. don't get the PCID when using EPT or NPT. The PCID is especially problematic for EPT as the bits have different meaning, and so the PCID and must be manually stripped, which is annoying and unnecessary. And on VMX, getting the active PCID also involves reading the guest's CR3 and CR4.PCIDE, i.e. may add pointless VMREADs. Opportunistically rename the pgd/pgd_level params to root_hpa and root_level to better reflect their new roles. Keep the function names, as "load the guest PGD" is still accurate/correct. Last, and probably least, pass root_hpa as a hpa_t/u64 instead of an unsigned long. The EPTP holds a 64-bit value, even in 32-bit mode, so in theory EPT could support HIGHMEM for 32-bit KVM. Never mind that doing so would require changing the MMU page allocators and reworking the MMU to use kmap(). Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Message-Id: <20210305183123.3978098-2-seanjc@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.