linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: check match table

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Date:   Tue, 3 Oct 2017 19:54:17 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:     Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>, kay@...y.org,
        avi@...hat.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] KVM: VMX: check match table

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 11:42:18AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 01/10/2017 01:22, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > I don't follow (but I also don't know what any of these three letter
> > acryonyms acronyms stand for), does svm depend on vmx or vice-versa?
> Neither, one is Intel (VMX), the other is AMD (SVM).

Oh, neat, did not realize the vendors did not have different names for
their virtualization extensions.

https://rtfmp.com/2016/03/21/what-does-vmx-svm-cpu-flags-mean/

> Would this work for you?

It doesn't apply cleanly on Linus' tree, or the KVM tree master branch,
so I couldn't fully test it.  But it does look like it will do the
trick.

> And again, is this only with clang?

Indeed the warning was coming from Clang, but looks like some
additional cleanup was done, which is good.

Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@...il.com>