Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 5 authors, 2021-08-06

Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] KVM: x86/mmu: simplify argument to kvm page fault handler

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Date: 2021-06-10 12:47:08
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On 26/05/21 23:10, Sean Christopherson wrote:
   - Have kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() handle initialization of the struct.  That
     will allow making most of the fields const, and will avoid the rather painful
     kvm_page_fault_init().

   - Pass @vcpu separately.  Yes, it's associated with the fault, but literally
     the first line in every consumer is "struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kpf->vcpu;".

   - Use "fault" instead of "kpf", mostly because it reads better for people that
     aren't intimately familiar with the code, but also to avoid having to refactor
     a huge amount of code if we decide to rename kvm_page_fault, e.g. if we decide
     to use that name to return fault information to userspace.

   - Snapshot anything that is computed in multiple places, even if it is
     derivative of existing info.  E.g. it probably makes sense to grab
I agree with all of these (especially it was a bit weird not to see vcpu 
in the prototypes).  Thanks Sean for the review!

Paolo
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