Re: [PATCH V6 1/7] KVM: selftests: sparsebit: add const where appropriate

Sean Christopherson
2023-03-24T17:09:09Z

I suggest this for the shortlog

KVM: selftests: Make sparsebit structs const where appropriate

Three deep scopes are a net negative IMO. Too much of the shortlog is consumed
by the scope, and very few patches are actually capable of such precision, i.e.
touch more than a single area.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2023, Peter Gonda wrote:
> From: Michael Roth <michael.roth@amd.com>
>
> Subsequent patches will introduce an encryption bitmap in kvm_util that

protected memory, not encryption

> would be useful to allow tests to access in read-only fashion. This
> will be done via a const sparsebit*. To avoid warnings or the need to
> add casts everywhere, add const to the various sparsebit functions that
> are applicable for read-only usage of sparsebit.