Re: [PATCH 05/11] KVM: SVM: remove unused field from struct vcpu_svm

From: Sean Christopherson
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 10:26:09 EST


On Wed, Nov 09, 2022, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The pointer to svm_cpu_data in struct vcpu_svm looks interesting from
> the point of view of accessing it after vmexit, when the GSBASE is still
> containing the guest value. However, despite existing since the very
> first commit of drivers/kvm/svm.c (commit 6aa8b732ca01, "[PATCH] kvm:
> userspace interface", 2006-12-10), it was never set to anything.
>
> Ignore the opportunity to fix a 16 year old "bug" and delete it; doing
> things the "harder" way makes it possible to remove more old cruft.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx>