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Bae" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Wed, Mar 11, 2026, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 3/11/26 14:31, Sean Christopherson wrote: > > > Not closely following this series and don't know this code well, but > > > this API is very confusing for me tbh. Especially in comparison with > > > kvm_reset_dirty_registers(). > > > > > > Maybe rename this to kvm_clear_available_registers(), and pass in a > > > "clear_mask", then reverse the polarity: > > > > > > vcpu->arch.regs_avail &= ~clear_mask; > > Oh, yeah, I can do something like that. I originally misread the TDX code and > > thought it was explicitly setting regs_avail, and so came up with a roundabout > > name. I didn't revisit the naming or the polarity of the param once I realized > > all callers could use the same scheme. > > > > No small part of me is tempted to turn it into a straigh "set" though, unless I'm > > missing something, the whole &= business is an implementation quirk. > > I like kvm_clear_available_registers() for this + removing the second > argument completely for kvm_reset_dirty_registers(). Ya, me too. I almost dropped the param for kvm_reset_dirty_registers(), but wanted symmetry since the names were the same. But I like this a lot more.