The patch is in attachment.

2009/8/16 Avi Kivity <[email protected]>:
> On 08/10/2009 08:11 PM, Mikhail Ershov wrote:
>>
>> Descriptor table can be placed on two non-contiguous pages.
>> It is better to read descriptor by linear address.
>>
>
> Patch is good, but is whitespace-corrupted.  Please send as an attachment
> (or using git-send-email).
>
> Make sure the attachment is plain/text so mail clients can display it
> inline.
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Mikhail Ershov
From eb73019762ec299ded618d807f5c14859491adbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mikhail Ershov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:08:07 +0400
Subject: [PATCH] Using kvm_read/write_guest_virt to read and write segment 
descriptors.

 Segment descriptors tables can be placed on two non-contiguous pages.
This patch makes reading segment descriptors by linear address.

Signed-off-by: Mikhail Ershov <[email protected]>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |   10 ++--------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
index 52d5d72..aa2dd12 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
@@ -4017,7 +4017,6 @@ static void get_segment_descriptor_dtable(struct kvm_vcpu 
*vcpu,
 static int load_guest_segment_descriptor(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u16 selector,
                                         struct desc_struct *seg_desc)
 {
-       gpa_t gpa;
        struct descriptor_table dtable;
        u16 index = selector >> 3;
 
@@ -4027,16 +4026,13 @@ static int load_guest_segment_descriptor(struct 
kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u16 selector,
                kvm_queue_exception_e(vcpu, GP_VECTOR, selector & 0xfffc);
                return 1;
        }
-       gpa = vcpu->arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa(vcpu, dtable.base);
-       gpa += index * 8;
-       return kvm_read_guest(vcpu->kvm, gpa, seg_desc, 8);
+       return kvm_read_guest_virt(dtable.base + index*8, seg_desc, 
sizeof(*seg_desc), vcpu);
 }
 
 /* allowed just for 8 bytes segments */
 static int save_guest_segment_descriptor(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, u16 selector,
                                         struct desc_struct *seg_desc)
 {
-       gpa_t gpa;
        struct descriptor_table dtable;
        u16 index = selector >> 3;
 
@@ -4044,9 +4040,7 @@ static int save_guest_segment_descriptor(struct kvm_vcpu 
*vcpu, u16 selector,
 
        if (dtable.limit < index * 8 + 7)
                return 1;
-       gpa = vcpu->arch.mmu.gva_to_gpa(vcpu, dtable.base);
-       gpa += index * 8;
-       return kvm_write_guest(vcpu->kvm, gpa, seg_desc, 8);
+       return kvm_write_guest_virt(dtable.base + index*8, seg_desc, 
sizeof(*seg_desc), vcpu);
 }
 
 static u32 get_tss_base_addr(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
-- 
1.6.0.4

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