Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] target/i386: Fix duplicated feature name in FEAT_KVM

[Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>]

On Fri,  8 Sep 2023 14:45:27 +0200
Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com> wrote:

> The mistake became apparent as there were two features with the same name
> in this cpuid leaf. The names are now in line with the documentation from
> https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/virt/kvm/x86/cpuid.html

I'd describe what duplication breaks and it's effects.

and also why it's considered that it's safe to change names here.

> Fixes: 642258c6c7 ("kvm: add kvmclock to its second bit")
> Signed-off-by: Tim Wiederhake <twiederh@redhat.com>
> ---
>  target/i386/cpu.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/target/i386/cpu.c b/target/i386/cpu.c
> index f10d343935..f0fedf4b88 100644
> --- a/target/i386/cpu.c
> +++ b/target/i386/cpu.c
> @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ FeatureWordInfo feature_word_info[FEATURE_WORDS] = {
>      [FEAT_KVM] = {
>          .type = CPUID_FEATURE_WORD,
>          .feat_names = {
> -            "kvmclock", "kvm-nopiodelay", "kvm-mmu", "kvmclock",
> +            "kvmclock", "kvm-nopiodelay", "kvm-mmu", "kvmclock2",
>              "kvm-asyncpf", "kvm-steal-time", "kvm-pv-eoi", "kvm-pv-unhalt",
>              NULL, "kvm-pv-tlb-flush", NULL, "kvm-pv-ipi",
>              "kvm-poll-control", "kvm-pv-sched-yield", "kvm-asyncpf-int", "kvm-msi-ext-dest-id",