On Tue, Oct 28, 2025 at 03:30:40PM -0700, Jim Mattson wrote:
> Walk the guest page tables via a loop when searching for a PTE,
> instead of using unique variables for each level of the page tables.
> 
> This simplifies the code and makes it easier to support 5-level paging
> in the future.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jim Mattson <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>

> ---
>  .../testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c | 23 ++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c 
> b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> index 738f2a44083f..720c678187b5 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/x86/processor.c
> @@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ static bool vm_is_target_pte(uint64_t *pte, int *level, 
> int current_level)
>  uint64_t *__vm_get_page_table_entry(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint64_t vaddr,
>                                   int *level)
>  {
> -     uint64_t *pml4e, *pdpe, *pde;
> +     uint64_t *pte = &vm->pgd;
> +     int current_level;
>  
>       TEST_ASSERT(!vm->arch.is_pt_protected,
>                   "Walking page tables of protected guests is impossible");
> @@ -328,19 +329,15 @@ uint64_t *__vm_get_page_table_entry(struct kvm_vm *vm, 
> uint64_t vaddr,
>       TEST_ASSERT(vaddr == (((int64_t)vaddr << 16) >> 16),
>               "Canonical check failed.  The virtual address is invalid.");
>  
> -     pml4e = virt_get_pte(vm, &vm->pgd, vaddr, PG_LEVEL_512G);
> -     if (vm_is_target_pte(pml4e, level, PG_LEVEL_512G))
> -             return pml4e;
> -
> -     pdpe = virt_get_pte(vm, pml4e, vaddr, PG_LEVEL_1G);
> -     if (vm_is_target_pte(pdpe, level, PG_LEVEL_1G))
> -             return pdpe;
> -
> -     pde = virt_get_pte(vm, pdpe, vaddr, PG_LEVEL_2M);
> -     if (vm_is_target_pte(pde, level, PG_LEVEL_2M))
> -             return pde;
> +     for (current_level = vm->pgtable_levels;
> +          current_level > PG_LEVEL_4K;
> +          current_level--) {
> +             pte = virt_get_pte(vm, pte, vaddr, current_level);
> +             if (vm_is_target_pte(pte, level, current_level))
> +                     return pte;
> +     }
>  
> -     return virt_get_pte(vm, pde, vaddr, PG_LEVEL_4K);
> +     return virt_get_pte(vm, pte, vaddr, PG_LEVEL_4K);
>  }
>  
>  uint64_t *vm_get_page_table_entry(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint64_t vaddr)
> -- 
> 2.51.1.851.g4ebd6896fd-goog
> 

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