KVM: x86: Simplify retrieving the page offset when loading PDTPRs
Replace impressively complex "logic" for computing the page offset from CR3 when loading PDPTRs. Unlike other paging modes, the address held in CR3 for PAE paging is 32-byte aligned, i.e. occupies bits 31:5, thus bits 11:5 need to be used as the offset from the gfn when reading PDPTRs. The existing calculation originated in commit 1342d353 ("[PATCH] KVM: MMU: Load the pae pdptrs on cr3 change like the processor does"), which read the PDPTRs from guest memory as individual 8-byte loads. At the time, the so called "offset" was the base index of PDPTR0 as a _u64_, not a byte offset. Naming aside, the computation was useful and arguably simplified the overall flow. Unfortunately, when commit 195aefde ("KVM: Add general accessors to read and write guest memory") added accessors with offsets at byte granularity, the cleverness of the original code was lost and KVM was left with convoluted code for a simple operation. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210831164224.1119728-4-seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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