From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>, Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/13] KVM: x86: Dynamically allocate per-vCPU emulation context
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 06:57:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200303145746.GA1439@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bd7c0c-ac3c-8ab5-091f-598324156d27@redhat.com>
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:26:21AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/02/20 18:29, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> >> struct x86_emulate_ctxt {
> >> + void *vcpu;
> > Why 'void *'? I changed this to 'struct kvm_vcpu *' and it seems to
> > compile just fine...
> >
>
> I guess because it's really just an opaque pointer; using void* ensures
> that the emulator doesn't break the emulator ops abstraction.
Ya, it prevents the emulator from directly deferencing the vcpu.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-03 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-18 23:29 [PATCH v2 00/13] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to disable the emulator Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] KVM: x86: Refactor I/O emulation helpers to provide vcpu-only variant Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 15:16 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] KVM: x86: Explicitly pass an exception struct to check_intercept Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] KVM: x86: Move emulation-only helpers to emulate.c Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 15:23 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] KVM: x86: Refactor R/W page helper to take the emulation context Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 15:24 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] KVM: x86: Refactor emulated exception injection to take the emul context Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 15:25 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] KVM: x86: Refactor emulate tracepoint to explicitly take context Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:11 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 16:48 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 17:29 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03 17:42 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-03 17:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] KVM: x86: Refactor init_emulate_ctxt() " Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:13 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] KVM: x86: Dynamically allocate per-vCPU emulation context Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:29 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 10:26 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-03 14:57 ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-03-03 16:18 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 16:52 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] KVM: x86: Move kvm_emulate.h into KVM's private directory Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:38 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-03 10:27 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] KVM: x86: Shrink the usercopy region of the emulation context Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:51 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-03-02 18:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-02 19:19 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 19:13 ` Sean Christopherson
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] KVM: x86: Add helper to "handle" internal emulation error Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 17:52 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] KVM: x86: Add variable to control existence of emulator Sean Christopherson
2020-02-26 18:01 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-18 23:29 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to disable the kernel's emulator Sean Christopherson
2020-03-02 18:42 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] KVM: x86: Allow userspace to disable the emulator Paolo Bonzini
2020-03-02 20:02 ` Sean Christopherson
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