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@ 2025-12-05  7:45 Juergen Gross
  2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] KVM: Switch coalesced_mmio_in_range() to return bool Juergen Gross
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From: Juergen Gross @ 2025-12-05  7:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, kvm, x86, linux-coco
  Cc: Juergen Gross, Paolo Bonzini, Sean Christopherson,
	Thomas Gleixner, Ingo Molnar, Borislav Petkov, Dave Hansen,
	H. Peter Anvin, Kiryl Shutsemau, Rick Edgecombe, Vitaly Kuznetsov,
	David Woodhouse, Paul Durrant

This series is the first part of replacing the use of literal numbers
(0 and 1) as return values with either true/false or with defines.

This work is a prelude of getting rid of the magic value "1" for
"return to guest". I started in x86 KVM host code doing that and soon
stumbled over lots of other use cases of the magic "1" as return value,
especially in MSR emulation where a comment even implied this "1" was
due to the "return to guest" semantics.

A detailed analysis of all related code paths revealed that there was
indeed a rather clean interface between the functions using the MSR
emulation "1" and those using the "return to guest" "1". 

A few functions just using "0" and "1" instead of bool are changed,
tooi (patches 1-4).

The rest of the series is cleaning up the MSR emulation code by using
new proper defines for return values 0 and 1.

The whole series should not result in any functional change.

Juergen Gross (10):
  KVM: Switch coalesced_mmio_in_range() to return bool
  KVM/x86: Use bool for the err parameter of kvm_complete_insn_gp()
  KVM/x86: Let x86_emulate_ops.set_cr() return a bool
  KVM/x86: Let x86_emulate_ops.set_dr() return a bool
  KVM/x86: Add KVM_MSR_RET_* defines for values 0 and 1
  KVM/x86: Use defines for APIC related MSR emulation
  KVM/x86: Use defines for Hyper-V related MSR emulation
  KVM/x86: Use defines for VMX related MSR emulation
  KVM/x86: Use defines for SVM related MSR emulation
  KVM/x86: Use defines for common related MSR emulation

 arch/x86/include/asm/kvm_host.h |  14 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c          |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/hyperv.c           | 110 +++++++-------
 arch/x86/kvm/kvm_emulate.h      |   4 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c            |  48 +++----
 arch/x86/kvm/mtrr.c             |  12 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/pmu.c              |  12 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/smm.c              |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/pmu.c          |  12 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c          |  54 +++----
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/main.c         |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c       |  18 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/pmu_intel.c    |  20 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.c          |  18 +--
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/tdx.h          |   2 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c          | 122 ++++++++--------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c              | 246 ++++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/x86/kvm/x86.h              |  10 +-
 arch/x86/kvm/xen.c              |  14 +-
 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c       |  14 +-
 20 files changed, 372 insertions(+), 364 deletions(-)

-- 
2.51.0


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2025-12-05  7:45 [PATCH 00/10] KVM: Avoid literal numbers as return values Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] KVM: Switch coalesced_mmio_in_range() to return bool Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 02/10] KVM/x86: Use bool for the err parameter of kvm_complete_insn_gp() Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 03/10] KVM/x86: Let x86_emulate_ops.set_cr() return a bool Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 04/10] KVM/x86: Let x86_emulate_ops.set_dr() " Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 05/10] KVM/x86: Add KVM_MSR_RET_* defines for values 0 and 1 Juergen Gross
2025-12-05 10:23   ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2025-12-05 10:39     ` Jürgen Groß
2025-12-05 15:02       ` Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 15:59         ` Jürgen Groß
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 06/10] KVM/x86: Use defines for APIC related MSR emulation Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 07/10] KVM/x86: Use defines for Hyper-V " Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 08/10] KVM/x86: Use defines for VMX " Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 09/10] KVM/x86: Use defines for SVM " Juergen Gross
2025-12-05  7:45 ` [PATCH 10/10] KVM/x86: Use defines for common " Juergen Gross
2025-12-05 14:16 ` [PATCH 00/10] KVM: Avoid literal numbers as return values Sean Christopherson
2025-12-05 15:47   ` Jürgen Groß

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