Re: [PATCH 1/2] KVM: x86: introduce definitions to support static calls for kvm_x86_ops

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Jan 13 2021 - 11:31:03 EST


On Wed, Jan 13, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 13/01/21 05:12, Jason Baron wrote:
> > >
> > Looking at the vmx definitions I see quite a few that don't
> > match that naming. For example:
> >
> > hardware_unsetup,
> > hardware_enable,
> > hardware_disable,
> > report_flexpriority,
> > update_exception_bitmap,
> > enable_nmi_window,
> > enable_irq_window,
> > update_cr8_intercept,
> > pi_has_pending_interrupt,
> > cpu_has_vmx_wbinvd_exit,
> > pi_update_irte,
> > kvm_complete_insn_gp,
> >
> > So I'm not sure if we want to extend these macros to
> > vmx/svm.
>
> Don't do it yourself, but once you introduce the new header it becomes a
> no-brainer to switch the declarations to use it. So let's plan the new
> header to make that switch easy.

Ya, sorry if I didn't make it clear that the vmx/svm conversion is firmly out
of scope for this series.