Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] KVM/x86: Enhancements to static calls

Paolo Bonzini
2024-06-12T10:19:58Z

On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 3:23 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 07 May 2024 21:31:00 +0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> > This patchset introduces the kvm_x86_call() and kvm_pmu_call() macros to
> > streamline the usage of static calls of kvm_x86_ops and kvm_pmu_ops. The
> > current static_call() usage is a bit verbose and can lead to code
> > alignment challenges, and the addition of kvm_x86_ prefix to hooks at the
> > static_call() sites hinders code readability and navigation. The use of
> > static_call_cond() is essentially the same as static_call() on x86, so it
> > is replaced by static_call() to simplify the code. The changes have gone
> > through my tests (guest launch, a few vPMU tests, live migration tests)
> > without an issue.
> >
> > [...]
>
> Applied to kvm-x86 static_calls. I may or may not rebase these commits
> depending on what all gets queued for 6.10. There are already three conflicts
> that I know of, but they aren't _that_ annoying. Yet. :-)

I think it's best if we apply them directly (i.e. not through a pull
request), on top of everything else in 6.11.

Paolo