linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kvm: x86: make kvm_emulate

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Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2015 20:04:30 +0100
From:	Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>
To:	Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@....com>
Cc:	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Kaplan <david.kaplan@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] kvm: x86: make kvm_emulate_* consistant

2015-03-02 12:04-0600, Joel Schopp:
> Currently kvm_emulate() skips the instruction but kvm_emulate_* sometimes
> don't.  The end reult is the caller ends up doing the skip themselves. 
> Let's make them consistant.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <joel.schopp@....com>
> ---
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c b/arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c
> @@ -4995,7 +4995,7 @@ static int handle_rmode_exception(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu,
>  		if (emulate_instruction(vcpu, 0) == EMULATE_DONE) {
>  			if (vcpu->arch.halt_request) {
>  				vcpu->arch.halt_request = 0;
> -				return kvm_emulate_halt(vcpu);
> +				return kvm_emulate_halt_noskip(vcpu);

noskip is used without being declared ... it shouldn't compile.

*_noskip makes the usual case harder to undertand: we just want to halt
the vcpu, so name it more directly ... like kvm_vcpu_halt()?
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