From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751366AbcEJRAw (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2016 13:00:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52476 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751304AbcEJRAv (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2016 13:00:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [PART1 V5 07/13] KVM: x86: Detect and Initialize AVIC support To: Borislav Petkov References: <1462388992-25242-1-git-send-email-Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> <1462388992-25242-8-git-send-email-Suravee.Suthikulpanit@amd.com> <20160510091447.GA16752@pd.tnic> <5731F379.9080309@redhat.com> <20160510162421.GE16752@pd.tnic> Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit , rkrcmar@redhat.com, joro@8bytes.org, gleb@kernel.org, alex.williamson@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wei@redhat.com, sherry.hurwitz@amd.com From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <573213BB.40001@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 19:00:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160510162421.GE16752@pd.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Tue, 10 May 2016 17:00:50 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/05/2016 18:24, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Sure but how can one even read that? > > AVIC_PHYSICAL_ID_ENTRY_HOST_PHYSICAL_ID_MASK > > AVIC's physical ID entry's host's physical ID's mask? > > That sucks in any language :-) If you read it backwards, that's the Mask for the host physical id in entries of the physical ID table (an AVIC thing). Quite a mouthful, can't deny that. But I'm sure Germans would appreciate it. Paolo "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz"