[PATCH v5 2/4] live migration support for initial write protect of VM

Mario Smarduch m.smarduch at samsung.com
Fri May 30 09:48:15 PDT 2014


>>  
>> +static inline void kvm_set_s2pte_readonly(pte_t *pte)
>> +{
>> +	pte_val(*pte) &= ~(L_PTE_S2_RDONLY ^ L_PTE_S2_RDWR);
> 
> This relies on the pte already having been set as RDONLY or RDWR, if you
> are creating a new pte and calling this function it could be easy to
> miss that distinction, I would prefer:
> 
> pte_val(*pte) &= L_PTE_S2_RDWR;
> pte_val(*pte) |= L_PTE_S2_RDONLY;
> 

Confused on this comment, this appears to just add the read-only
permission. But will leave other permission bits intact, and
clears out the rest of the pte?

- Mario




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