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authorSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2026-05-09 15:53:57 +0800
committerSean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>2026-05-27 15:35:10 -0700
commit12d595795de758dbaab2da6dac14ebd354b0f57d (patch)
treeed56fdd2cc0ccae5058b62e3ef379d7c0a016542 /scripts/patch-kernel
parent3f330fbb918fbbfb5b50b190fff8a13d7810b6f0 (diff)
KVM: TDX: Drop kvm_x86_ops.link_external_spt()
Drop the dedicated .link_external_spt() for linking S-EPT pages, and instead funnel everything through .set_external_spte() for mapping S-EPT entries. Using separate hooks doesn't help prevent TDP MMU details from bleeding into TDX, and vice versa; to the contrary, dedicated callbacks will result in _more_ pollution when hugepage support is added, e.g. will require the TDP MMU to know details about the splitting rules for TDX that aren't all that relevant to the TDP MMU. Ideally, KVM would provide a single pair of hooks to set S-EPT entries, one hook for setting SPTEs under write-lock and another for setting SPTEs under read-lock (e.g. to ensure the entire operation is "atomic", to allow for failure, etc.). Sadly, TDX's requirement that all child S-EPT entries are removed before the parent makes that impractical: the TDP MMU deliberately prunes non-leaf SPTEs and _then_ processes its children, thus making it quite important for the TDP MMU to differentiate between zapping leaf and non-leaf S-EPT entries. However, that's the _only_ case that's truly special, and even that case could be shoehorned into a single hook; it just wouldn't be a net positive. Signed-off-by: Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Yan Zhao <yan.y.zhao@intel.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260509075357.4113-1-yan.y.zhao@intel.com Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
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