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From: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
To: Ben Gardon <bgardon@google.com>
Cc: Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	David Dunn <daviddunn@google.com>,
	Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>,
	Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 03/10] KVM: selftests: Read binary stats desc in lib
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 19:02:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YlXMxcKVgWxHtiGR@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANgfPd8mZ9-zQBvK=OASQ+n7eq_FpvpStMc_yD-UsmFdQ3OCvA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022, Ben Gardon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 5:55 PM Mingwei Zhang <mizhang@google.com> wrote:
> > I was very confused on header->name_size. So this field means the
> > maximum string size of a stats name, right? Can we update the comments
> > in the kvm.h to specify that? By reading the comments, I don't really
> > feel this is how we should use this field.
> 
> I believe that's right. I agree the documentation on that was a little
> confusing.

Heh, a little.  I got tripped up looking at this too.  Give me a few minutes and
I'll attach a cleanup patch to add comments and fix the myriad style issues.

This whole file is painful to look at.  Aside from violating preferred kernel
style, it's horribly consistent with itself.  Well, except for the 80 char limit,
to which it has a fanatical devotion.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-12 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-11 21:10 [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable NX hugepages on a VM Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 01/10] KVM: selftests: Remove dynamic memory allocation for stats header Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:52   ` David Matlack
2022-04-11 22:50     ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 02/10] KVM: selftests: Read binary stats header in lib Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:55   ` David Matlack
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 03/10] KVM: selftests: Read binary stats desc " Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 22:01   ` David Matlack
2022-04-12  0:54   ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-04-12 18:56     ` Ben Gardon
2022-04-12 19:02       ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2022-04-12 20:02         ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-12 22:12           ` Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 04/10] KVM: selftests: Read binary stat data " Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 22:14   ` David Matlack
2022-04-12 19:58     ` Ben Gardon
2022-04-12  1:25   ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 05/10] KVM: selftests: Add NX huge pages test Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 22:27   ` David Matlack
2022-04-12 22:11     ` Ben Gardon
2022-04-12  1:32   ` Mingwei Zhang
2022-04-12 21:51     ` Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 06/10] KVM: x86/MMU: Factor out updating NX hugepages state for a VM Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 07/10] KVM: x86/MMU: Allow NX huge pages to be disabled on a per-vm basis Ben Gardon
2022-04-12 17:54   ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 08/10] KVM: x86: Fix errant brace in KVM capability handling Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 09/10] KVM: x86/MMU: Require reboot permission to disable NX hugepages Ben Gardon
2022-04-12 18:08   ` Sean Christopherson
2022-04-11 21:10 ` [PATCH v4 10/10] KVM: selftests: Test disabling NX hugepages on a VM Ben Gardon
2022-04-11 22:37   ` David Matlack
2022-04-11 21:15 ` [PATCH v4 00/10] KVM: x86: Add a cap to disable " Ben Gardon

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