Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] KVM: x86: Add a framework for enabling KVM-governed x86 features

From: Huang, Kai
Date: Wed Aug 16 2023 - 18:47:02 EST


On Wed, 2023-08-16 at 07:20 -0700, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, Kai Huang wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/governed_features.h b/arch/x86/kvm/governed_features.h
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..40ce8e6608cd
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/governed_features.h
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
> > > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> > > +#if !defined(KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE) || defined(KVM_GOVERNED_X86_FEATURE)
> > > +BUILD_BUG()
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > > +#define KVM_GOVERNED_X86_FEATURE(x) KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE(X86_FEATURE_##x)
> > > +
> > > +#undef KVM_GOVERNED_X86_FEATURE
> > > +#undef KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE
> >
> > Nit:
> >
> > Do you want to move the very last
> >
> > #undef KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE
> >
> > out of "governed_features.h", but to the place(s) where the macro is defined?
> >
> > Yes there will be multiple:
> >
> > #define KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE(x) ...
> > #include "governed_features.h"
> > #undef KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE
> >
> > But this looks clearer to me.
>
> I agree the symmetry looks better, but doing the #undef in governed_features.h
> is much more robust. E.g. having the #undef in the header makes it all but impossible
> to have a bug where we forget to #undef KVM_GOVERNED_FEATURE. Or worse, have two
> bugs where we forget to #undef and then also forget to #define in a later include
> and consume the stale #define.

Fair enough.

>
> And I also want to follow the pattern used by kvm-x86-ops.h.

Right. I forgot to check this.

Reviewed-by: Kai Huang <kai.huang@xxxxxxxxx>