On 07/26/2011 02:31 PM, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Sometimes, we only modify the last one byte of a pte to update status bit,
for example, clear_bit is used to clear r/w bit in linux kernel and 'andb'
instruction is used in this function, in this case, kvm_mmu_pte_write will
treat it as misaligned access, and the shadow page table is zapped

@@ -3597,6 +3597,14 @@ static bool detect_write_misaligned(struct kvm_mmu_page 
*sp, gpa_t gpa,

        offset = offset_in_page(gpa);
        pte_size = sp->role.cr4_pae ? 8 : 4;
+
+       /*
+        * Sometimes, the OS only writes the last one bytes to update status
+        * bits, for example, in linux, andb instruction is used in clear_bit().
+        */
+       if (sp->role.level == 1&&  !(offset&  (pte_size - 1))&&  bytes == 1)
+               return false;
+

Could be true for level > 1, no?

--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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