Re: [PATCH 0/2] x86/shadow: shadow_get_page_from_l1e() adjustments

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 15.04.2021 18:10, Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 13:46 +0200 on 12 Apr (1618235218), Jan Beulich wrote:
>> The aspect of the function the second patch here changes has been
>> puzzling me for many years. I finally thought I ought to make an
>> attempt at reducing this to just a single get_page_from_l1e()
>> invocation. The first patch mainly helps readability (of the code
>> in general as well as the second patch).
>>
>> Note that the first patch here takes "VMX: use a single, global APIC
>> access page" as a prereq; it could be re-based ahead of that one.
>>
>> 1: re-use variables in shadow_get_page_from_l1e()
>> 2: streamline shadow_get_page_from_l1e()
> 
> Acked-by: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx>

Thanks. Any thoughts on the shadow part of the prereq patch mentioned
above?

Jan