On 7/2/20 7:24 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 02/07/2020 23:59, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
>> On 7/1/20 7:06 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
>>> -static void xen_set_pte_atomic(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
>>> -{
>>> - trace_xen_mmu_set_pte_atomic(ptep, pte);
>>> - __xen_set_pte(ptep, pte);
>> Probably not for this series but I wonder whether __xen_set_pte() should
>> continue to use hypercall now that we are 64-bit only.
> The hypercall path is a SYSCALL (and SYSRET out).
>
> The "writeable" PTE path is a #PF, followed by an x86 instruction
> emulation, which then reaches the same logic as the hypercall path (and
> an IRET out).
Then we should at least update the comment.
-boris
