a717a780fc
Include pml5_root in the set of special roots if and only if the host,
and thus NPT, is using 5-level paging. mmu_alloc_special_roots() expects
special roots to be allocated as a bundle, i.e. they're either all valid
or all NULL. But for pml5_root, that expectation only holds true if the
host uses 5-level paging, which causes KVM to WARN about pml5_root being
NULL when the other special roots are valid.
The silver lining of 4-level vs. 5-level NPT being tied to the host
kernel's paging level is that KVM's shadow root level is constant; unlike
VMX's EPT, KVM can't choose 4-level NPT based on guest.MAXPHYADDR. That
means KVM can still expect pml5_root to be bundled with the other special
roots, it just needs to be conditioned on the shadow root level.
Fixes: cb0f722aff ("KVM: x86/mmu: Support shadowing NPT when 5-level paging is enabled in host")
Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky <mlevitsk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20210824005824.205536-1-seanjc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.