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From: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
To: Krish Sadhukhan <krish.sadhukhan@oracle.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	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] KVM: nVMX: Remove stale comment from nested_vmx_load_cr3()
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 12:36:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200204203607.GB5663@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcee13f5-f447-9ab4-4803-e3c4f42fb011@oracle.com>

On Tue, Feb 04, 2020 at 11:57:39AM -0800, Krish Sadhukhan wrote:
> 
> On 2/4/20 7:32 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> >The blurb pertaining to the return value of nested_vmx_load_cr3() no
> >longer matches reality, remove it entirely as the behavior it is
> >attempting to document is quite obvious when reading the actual code.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
> >---
> >  arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c | 2 --
> >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >index 7608924ee8c1..0c9b847f7a25 100644
> >--- a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c
> >@@ -1076,8 +1076,6 @@ static bool nested_cr3_valid(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long val)
> >  /*
> >   * Load guest's/host's cr3 at nested entry/exit. nested_ept is true if we are
> >   * emulating VM entry into a guest with EPT enabled.
> >- * Returns 0 on success, 1 on failure. Invalid state exit qualification code
> >- * is assigned to entry_failure_code on failure.
> >   */
> >  static int nested_vmx_load_cr3(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, unsigned long cr3, bool nested_ept,
> >  			       u32 *entry_failure_code)
> 
> I think it's worth keeping the last part which is " Exit qualification code
> is assigned to entry_failure_code on failure." because "Entry Failure" and
> "Exit Qualification" might sound bit confusing until you actually look at
> the caller nested_vmx_enter_non_root_mode().

Hmm, something like this?

/*
 * Load guest's/host's cr3 at nested entry/exit.  @nested_ept is true if we are
 * emulating VM-Entry into a guest with EPT enabled.  On failure, the expected
 * Exit Qualification (for a VM-Entry consistency check VM-Exit) is assigned to
 * @entry_failure_code.
 */

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-04 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-04 15:32 [PATCH] KVM: nVMX: Remove stale comment from nested_vmx_load_cr3() Sean Christopherson
2020-02-04 16:15 ` Vitaly Kuznetsov
2020-02-04 19:57 ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-02-04 20:36   ` Sean Christopherson [this message]
2020-02-04 22:01     ` Krish Sadhukhan
2020-02-05 14:31       ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-02-05  1:57 linmiaohe

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