Re: [PATCH v2 08/13] KVM: x86: Dynamically allocate per-vCPU emulation context

Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03T10:26:26Z

On 26/02/20 18:29, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
>> struct x86_emulate_ctxt {
>> + void *vcpu;
> Why 'void *'? I changed this to 'struct kvm_vcpu *' and it seems to
> compile just fine...
>

I guess because it's really just an opaque pointer; using void* ensures
that the emulator doesn't break the emulator ops abstraction.

Paolo