From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
To: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>,
Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kvm: vmx: Use basic exit reason to check if it's the specific VM EXIT
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:11:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877e0an763.fsf@vitty.brq.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <716806df-c0e4-43d5-b082-627d2c312f53@oracle.com>
Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com> writes:
>
> We have a macro for bit 31,
>
> VMX_EXIT_REASONS_FAILED_VMENTRY 0x80000000
>
>
> Does it make sense to define a macro like that instead ? Say,
>
> VMX_BASIC_EXIT_REASON 0x0000ffff
>
0xffffU ?
> and then we do,
>
> u32 exit_reason = vmx->exit_reason;
> u16 basic_exit_reason = exit_reason & VMX_BASIC_EXIT_REASON;
>
Just a naming suggestion: if we decide to go down this road, let's name
it e.g. VMX_BASIC_EXIT_REASON_MASK to make it clear this is *not* an
exit reason.
--
Vitaly
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 13:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-24 2:07 [PATCH 0/2] KVM: VMX: Use basic exit reason for cheking and indexing Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-24 2:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kvm: vmx: Use basic exit reason to check if it's the specific VM EXIT Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-24 10:16 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-24 12:01 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-24 13:04 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-24 16:17 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-25 0:13 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-25 6:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-25 6:41 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-26 23:59 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-27 8:35 ` Xiaoyao Li
2020-02-27 23:57 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-25 0:27 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-02-25 13:11 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov [this message]
2020-02-25 18:28 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-02-24 2:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] kvm: nvmx: Use basic(exit_reason) when checking specific EXIT_REASON Xiaoyao Li
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