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From: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@google.com>
To: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	 Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>,
	 Alexandru Elisei <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, Peter Shier <pshier@google.com>,
	 Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@google.com>,
	Oliver Upton <oupton@google.com>,
	 Jing Zhang <jingzhangos@google.com>,
	Raghavendra Rao Anata <rananta@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: mixed-width check should be skipped for uninitialized vCPUs
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 21:04:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAeT=FzGP6jcsDbhZsNZVCUib8UQ4zc+y6s0TrsaKjAKx9WSWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wni33td7.wl-maz@kernel.org>

Hi Marc,

> > > Also, we really should turn all these various bits in the kvm struct
> > > into a set of flags. I have a patch posted there[1] for this, feel
> > > free to pick it up.
> >
> > Thank you for the suggestion. But, kvm->arch.el1_reg_width is not
> > a binary because it needs to indicate an uninitialized state.  So, it
> > won't fit perfectly with kvm->arch.flags, which is introduced by [1]
> > as it is. Of course it's feasible by using 2 bits of the flags though...
>
> 2 bits is what I had in mind (one bit to indicate that it has already
> been initialised, another to carry the actual width).

Understood. Then, I will take the patch and will work on v3.
Thank you for all the comments!

Regards,
Reiji

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-02-11  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-18  4:19 [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: mixed-width check should be skipped for uninitialized vCPUs Reiji Watanabe
2022-01-18  4:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] KVM: arm64: selftests: Introduce vcpu_width_config Reiji Watanabe
2022-02-08 14:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] KVM: arm64: mixed-width check should be skipped for uninitialized vCPUs Marc Zyngier
2022-02-09  5:32   ` Reiji Watanabe
2022-02-09 12:04     ` Marc Zyngier
2022-02-10  5:31       ` Reiji Watanabe
2022-02-10 10:31         ` Marc Zyngier
2022-02-11  5:04           ` Reiji Watanabe [this message]

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