This was once used to avoid accessing the guest pte when upgrading
the shadow pte from read-only to read-write. But usually we need
to set the guest pte dirty or accessed bits anyway, so this wasn't
really exploited.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/kvm/mmu.c | 8 --------
drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
index b47391f..986d012 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/drivers/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -97,14 +97,6 @@ static int dbg = 1;
#define PT_SHADOW_PS_MARK (1ULL << PT_FIRST_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT)
#define PT_SHADOW_IO_MARK (1ULL << PT_FIRST_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT)
-#define PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_SHIFT (PT_FIRST_AVAIL_BITS_SHIFT + 1)
-#define PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_MASK (1ULL << PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_SHIFT)
-
-#define PT_SHADOW_USER_SHIFT (PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_SHIFT + 1)
-#define PT_SHADOW_USER_MASK (1ULL << (PT_SHADOW_USER_SHIFT))
-
-#define PT_SHADOW_BITS_OFFSET (PT_SHADOW_WRITABLE_SHIFT - PT_WRITABLE_SHIFT)
-
#define VALID_PAGE(x) ((x) != INVALID_PAGE)
#define PT64_LEVEL_BITS 9
diff --git a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
index b17a4b7..adc1206 100644
--- a/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
+++ b/drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h
@@ -219,7 +219,6 @@ static void FNAME(set_pte_common)(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
spte |= PT_PRESENT_MASK | PT_ACCESSED_MASK | PT_DIRTY_MASK;
spte |= *gpte & PT64_NX_MASK;
- spte |= access_bits << PT_SHADOW_BITS_OFFSET;
if (!dirty)
access_bits &= ~PT_WRITABLE_MASK;
--
1.5.0.6
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