linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: SVM: Keep seperate pointer to host-vmcb

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Message-ID: <4E1EC133.8030109@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:13:07 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>
CC:	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] KVM: SVM: Keep seperate pointer to host-vmcb

On 07/13/2011 06:32 PM, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel<joro@...tes.org>
>
> This patch introduces a new pointer which always points to
> the VMCB used for running the L1 guest.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel<joro@...tes.org>
> ---
>   arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |    6 +++++-
>   1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> index 475d1c9..3d5990f 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
> @@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ static u32 msrpm_offsets[MSRPM_OFFSETS] __read_mostly;
>   struct vcpu_svm {
>   	struct kvm_vcpu vcpu;
>   	struct vmcb *vmcb;
> +	struct vmcb *host_vmcb;
>   	unsigned long vmcb_pa;
> +	unsigned long host_vmcb_pa;

Why not call it vmcb01, like nvmx?  host_vmcb is ambiguous.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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