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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>,
	Isaku Yamahata <isaku.yamahata@intel.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>,
	Jim Mattson <jmattson@google.com>,
	isaku.yamahata@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] KVM: x86/mmu: simplify argument to kvm page fault handler
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:45:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <936b00e2-1bcc-d5cc-5ae1-59f43ab5325f@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YK65V++S2Kt1OLTu@google.com>

On 26/05/21 23:10, Sean Christopherson wrote:
>    - Have kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() handle initialization of the struct.  That
>      will allow making most of the fields const, and will avoid the rather painful
>      kvm_page_fault_init().
> 
>    - Pass @vcpu separately.  Yes, it's associated with the fault, but literally
>      the first line in every consumer is "struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu = kpf->vcpu;".
> 
>    - Use "fault" instead of "kpf", mostly because it reads better for people that
>      aren't intimately familiar with the code, but also to avoid having to refactor
>      a huge amount of code if we decide to rename kvm_page_fault, e.g. if we decide
>      to use that name to return fault information to userspace.
> 
>    - Snapshot anything that is computed in multiple places, even if it is
>      derivative of existing info.  E.g. it probably makes sense to grab

I agree with all of these (especially it was a bit weird not to see vcpu 
in the prototypes).  Thanks Sean for the review!

Paolo


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-10 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-20 10:39 [RFC PATCH 00/10] KVM: x86/mmu: simplify argument to kvm page fault handler Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 01/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make kvm_mmu_do_page_fault() receive single argument Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 02/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make kvm_mmu:page_fault " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 03/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make direct_page_fault() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 04/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make try_async_pf() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 05/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make page_fault_handle_page_track() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 06/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make handle_abnormal_pfn() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 07/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make fast_page_fault() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 08/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make __direct_map() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 09/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make kvm_tdp_mmu_map() " Isaku Yamahata
2021-04-20 10:39 ` [RFC PATCH 10/10] KVM: x86/mmu: make FNAME(fetch) " Isaku Yamahata
2021-05-26 21:10 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] KVM: x86/mmu: simplify argument to kvm page fault handler Sean Christopherson
2021-06-10 12:45   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2021-06-10 22:00     ` Isaku Yamahata
2021-07-29 16:48       ` David Matlack
2021-07-29 17:17         ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-07-29 17:24           ` David Matlack
2021-08-06 16:07             ` Paolo Bonzini

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